{"id":499,"date":"2015-03-11T06:53:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=499"},"modified":"2015-03-11T07:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:17:31","slug":"sunday-sermon-synopsis-for-31515-dying-to-serve-phil-225-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sermon Synopsis for 3\/15\/15: \u201cDying to Serve &#8211; Phil. 2:25-30&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/d.christiantoday.com\/en\/full\/1141\/reverend-nguyen-hong-quang.jpg?w=120&amp;h=180&amp;l=50&amp;t=40\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reverend Nguyen Hong Quang. Photo shared via Christianity Today<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Back on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0January 18, 2015,<\/strong>\u00a0Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang\u00a0of Vietnam\u00a0and his associate pastor were attacked by 5 men\u00a0near the Bible college he had founded and still\u00a0leads. The attack, though\u00a0unprovoked,was especially vicious.\u00a0A torrent of rocks and bricks pelted\u00a0the two ministers until they collapsed. Even then, their attackers\u00a0continued the assault, kicking and stomping them repeatedly. Pastor Quang suffered a broken nose, broken ribs, broken teeth and a broken jaw.\u00a0One more thing most\u00a0pertinent\u00a0here &#8211; this was\u00a0not the first time\u00a0Pastor Quang had been mugged by thugs, as per his testimony later:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When God called me, I<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>knew I must pay the price for the Lord. I&#8217;ve been in<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>jail 7 times<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and they have tried to assassinate me 4 times&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Quang serves as a 21<span style=\"font-size: 10.8333330154419px;\">st\u00a0<\/span>century\u00a0example\u00a0of what was\u00a0all-too-common during the New Testament era.\u00a0Come this Sunday to learn about Epaphroditus, a 1<span style=\"font-size: 10.8333330154419px;\">st\u00a0<\/span>century servant of Christ who didn&#8217;t let a\u00a0little thing like his death bed\u00a0get in his way of ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0January 18, 2015,\u00a0Pastor Nguyen Hong Quang\u00a0of Vietnam\u00a0and his associate pastor were attacked by 5 men\u00a0near the Bible college he had founded and still\u00a0leads. The attack, though\u00a0unprovoked,was especially vicious.\u00a0A torrent of rocks and bricks pelted\u00a0the two ministers until they collapsed. Even then, their attackers\u00a0continued the assault, kicking and stomping them repeatedly. Pastor Quang suffered a &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/?p=499\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-499","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-pastors-desk","9":"category-sermon-preview","10":"post_tag-sunday-sermon","11":"post_tag-synopsis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/help-e1426058090168.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}