{"id":6139,"date":"2008-05-16T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/16\/cults-and-discernment-in-east-africa-part-5\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:23:46","slug":"cults-and-discernment-in-east-africa-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/16\/cults-and-discernment-in-east-africa-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cults and Discernment in East Africa (Part 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cults and new religions are affecting not only Africa&#8217;s urban centers, but villages &#8220;upcountry&#8221; where pastors lack tools and training for discernment. We must equip them to preach the true Gospel and protect their congregations from error. Douglas Wicks of Wycliffe Bible Translators explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cults and new religions are affecting not only Africa&#8217;s urban centers, but villages &#8220;upcountry&#8221; where pastors lack tools and training for discernment. We must equip them to preach the true Gospel and protect their congregations from error. Douglas Wicks of Wycliffe Bible Translators explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,202],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-video","tag-discernment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","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=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6218,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}