{"id":5016,"date":"2013-04-26T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T06:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2013-04-25T06:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:15:06","slug":"sardis-the-dead-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"Sardis, the Dead Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAnd unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God\u201d (Revelation 3:1-2).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The church at Sardis had had a wonderful reputation among men. However, the church was dying.<\/p>\n<p>They needed to return to their beginnings when it was full of vitality.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t like they were completely dead, but rather in a coma.\u00a0 Oh, how they needed to wake up! How sad when the Enemy lulls people and churches to sleep, making them think they can rest on their laurels.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for Women Active for Christ in Virginia and Alabama, as they gather today and tomorrow for their annual state meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5016\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}