{"id":867,"date":"2013-04-06T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T13:10:19","slug":"willing-to-die-the-danger-of-being-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Willing to Die? The Danger of Being Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missionaries are frequently asked questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t you throwing away your education and career?<\/li>\n<li>What are you going to do about retirement?<\/li>\n<li>How long do you plan to stay on the field?\u00a0 When will you come home?<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t it dangerous?<\/li>\n<li>How often do you get to see your family?\u00a0 Your grandchildren?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vergenetwork.org\/2013\/04\/01\/what-is-worth-losing-everything-for-david-platt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Verge Network\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vergenetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/VergelogoBlueTransparent.png?8b5981\" width=\"215\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The danger of being safe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The list of these kinds of questions is endless.\u00a0\u00a0 And they all revolve around being comfortable and safe in living out our faith.<\/p>\n<p>David Platt, during one of the sessions of the 2013 Verge conference said this about being safe:<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vergenetwork.org\/2013\/04\/01\/what-is-worth-losing-everything-for-david-platt\/\">here<\/a> to listen to the short audio segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missionaries are frequently asked questions like: Aren&#8217;t you throwing away your education and career? What are you going to do about retirement? How long do you plan to stay on the field?\u00a0 When will you come home? Isn&#8217;t it dangerous? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/?p=867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servants4him.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}