{"id":252,"date":"2022-08-30T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numberourdays.org\/?p=252"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:33","slug":"senior-saints-we-need-you-by-douglas-a-sweeney-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Senior Saints, We Need You by Douglas A. Sweeney (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Seniors need to be persuaded that we want them to teach us \u201cwhat accords with sound doctrine,\u201d that we need our older men to show us how to be \u201csober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness,\u201d that we need our older women to be \u201creverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine [and] to teach what is good\u201d (Titus 2:1\u20133). I wonder, though, whether the average church member today thinks much about these things. Perhaps they need pastors to remind them what the Scriptures say about our life together [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/senior-saints-we-need-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seniors need to be persuaded that we want them to teach us \u201cwhat accords with sound doctrine,\u201d that we need our older men to show us how to be \u201csober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness,\u201d that we need our older women to be \u201creverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8064,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}