{"id":513,"date":"2020-09-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/special-why-you-dont-need-the-man-of-god\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:25:18","slug":"special-why-you-dont-need-the-man-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/special-why-you-dont-need-the-man-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL: Why You Don\u2019t Need the \u201cMan of God\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1142402\/5470555-special-why-you-don-t-need-the-man-of-god?iframe=true\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 200px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The expression \u201cman of God\u201d has come to mean a self-appointed apostle, prophet or pastor\u2014someone who claims special powers and is above accountability. So often such men (and even women!) control their followers through fear and intimidation. They have become like an assistant god, and to be blessed you must come through them. <em>But you do not need a special pastor or apostle for God to hear you!<\/em> Rodgers Atwebembeire explains from Scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression \u201cman of God\u201d has come to mean a self-appointed apostle, prophet or pastor\u2014someone who claims special powers and is above accountability. So often such men (and even women!) control their followers through fear and intimidation. They have become like an assistant god, and to be blessed you must come through them. But you&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/special-why-you-dont-need-the-man-of-god\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1],"tags":[104,97],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-english","tag-apostles","tag-prophets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}