{"id":845,"date":"2009-04-01T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:10:08","slug":"authority-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/authority-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Authority in the Church&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>As we advance through the centuries,<\/strong> light and life begin to decrease in the Church.\u00a0 Why? Because the torch of the Scripture begins to grow dim and because the deceitful light of human authorities begins to replace it.<\/em> ~Merle d&#8217; Aubigne, Reformation historian, (1794-1872)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we advance through the centuries, light and life begin to decrease in the Church.\u00a0 Why? Because the torch of the Scripture begins to grow dim and because the deceitful light of human authorities begins to replace it. ~Merle d&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/authority-in-the-church\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[160,352,31,351],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-pastoral-ministry","tag-bible","tag-church-authority","tag-quotes","tag-scripture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-dD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}