{"id":4058,"date":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/since-you-excel-in-so-many-ways-in-your-faith-your-gifted-speakers-your-knowledge-your-enthusiasm-and-your-love-from-us-i-want-you-to-excel-also-in-this-gracious-act-of-giving-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T00:00:00","slug":"since-you-excel-in-so-many-ways-in-your-faith-your-gifted-speakers-your-knowledge-your-enthusiasm-and-your-love-from-us-i-want-you-to-excel-also-in-this-gracious-act-of-giving-2","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/since-you-excel-in-so-many-ways-in-your-faith-your-gifted-speakers-your-knowledge-your-enthusiasm-and-your-love-from-us-i-want-you-to-excel-also-in-this-gracious-act-of-giving-2","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Since you excel in so many ways\u2014in your faith, your gifted speakers, your knowledge, your enthusiasm, and your love from us\u2014I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving&#8221; (2 Corinthians 8:7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul told the church at Corinth that they excelled in every area of ministry except in giving. He encouraged them to excellence there too. Giving is a habit that needs to be practiced. Like any other ministry, we grow in it as we do it. It is a sorely needed art in this culture of consumerism. It acts as a antidote to greed. Do you excel in the act of giving? Are you a great-giver?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul told the church at Corinth that they excelled in every area of ministry except in giving. He encouraged them to excellence there too. Giving is a habit that needs to be practiced. Like any other ministry, we grow in it as we do it. It is a sorely needed art in this culture of consumerism. It acts as a antidote to greed. Do you excel in the act of giving? Are you a great-giver?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1314],"scripture-chapter":[1341],"oyb_day":[1775],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4058","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-2-corinthians","scripture-chapter-1341","oyb_day-september-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}