{"id":7965,"date":"2020-03-12T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2020-02-29T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:57:57","slug":"st-tikhon-of-moscow-on-personal-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7965","title":{"rendered":"St Tikhon of Moscow on Personal Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must share our spiritual richness, truth, light, and joy with others who do not have these blessings.\u00a0 And this duty does not only lay upon the pastors and the missionaries but on the lay persons as well, since the Church of Christ, according to the wise comparison of the Holy Apostle Paul, is the body, and every member takes part in the life of the body.\u00a0 By means of all sorts of mutually binding bonds which are formed and strengthened through the action of every member according to his capacity, the great Church body receives an increase unto the edifying of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ Homily During Lent<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7966\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/327911.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/327911.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/327911.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/327911.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***Now and then we include a particularly thought provoking or inspiring excerpt not from an \u2018Elder\u2019***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must share our spiritual richness, truth, light, and joy with others who do not have these blessings.\u00a0 And this duty does not only lay upon the pastors and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7967,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}