{"id":9511,"date":"2023-04-09T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9511","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow is Easter Sunday &#8211; and Easter is the Super Bowl for preachers, so I am keeping this short tonight. I have two separate sermons to preach tomorrow morning and the second one still isn&#8217;t where I want it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I plan to share one of my favorite C.S. Lewis quotes in our second service tomorrow: &#8220;Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What he said goes for the resurrection of Christ as well &#8211; If Christ was not raised, Christian faith is of no importance. If He was raised, His resurrection is of infinite importance. The only thing the resurrection cannot be is moderately important.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Easter. He IS risen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Easter Sunday &#8211; and Easter is the Super Bowl for preachers, so I am keeping this short tonight. I have two separate sermons to preach tomorrow morning and the second one still isn&#8217;t where I want it.\u00a0 I plan to share one of my favorite C.S. Lewis quotes in our second service tomorrow: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","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=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}