{"id":2095,"date":"2021-06-07T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"how-to-recognize-a-gifted-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO RECOGNIZE A GIFTED PREACHER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a fantastic day at the beach, we were able to make it back to Phil and Emily&#8217;s place in time to catch Matt Ayars preaching at a local church.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve missed sitting under Matt&#8217;s teaching. When we lived in Haiti, our missionary group gathered every Wednesday afternoon for prayer and Bible study, with Matt typically in charge of the Bible time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, tonight Matt spoke on Spiritual Warfare &#8230; for an HOUR. And I would have been perfectly happy to keep listening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_181944-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"676\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a fantastic day at the beach, we were able to make it back to Phil and Emily&#8217;s place in time to catch Matt Ayars preaching at a local church.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve missed sitting under Matt&#8217;s teaching. When we lived in Haiti, our missionary group gathered every Wednesday afternoon for prayer and Bible study, with Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}