{"id":2041,"date":"2018-07-15T04:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T04:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2018-07-15T04:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T04:47:18","slug":"progress-in-the-christian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Progress in the Christian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. And such experience requires a whole life devoted to it and plenty of time spent at the holy task of cultivating God. God can be known satisfactorily only as we devote time to Him. Without meaning to do it we have written our serious fault into our book titles and gospel songs.\u00a0\u00a0A little talk with Jesus, we sing, and call our books God\u2019s Minute, or something else as revealing. The Christian who is satisfied to give God His minute and to have a little talk with Jesus\u00a0is the same one who shows up at the evangelistic service weeping over his retarded spiritual growth and begging the evangelist to show him the way out of his difficulty.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A.W. Tozer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. And such experience requires a whole life devoted to it and plenty of time spent at the holy task of cultivating God. God can be known satisfactorily only as we devote time to Him. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Progress in the Christian Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}