{"id":2809,"date":"2015-12-13T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2015-12-13T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:43:19","slug":"lottie-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"Lottie Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the anniversary of Lottie Moon&#8217;s birth 175-years ago.  Since the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s International Missions Board has lost tens of millions of dollars over just the past two years, and is selling-off property and recalling missionaries to make-up the shortfall, there is a huge push to make this year&#8217;s annual Lottie Moon collection for missions the best ever.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today would be 175th birthday of Lottie Moon. Let\u2019s make the 2015 LM Offering for World Missions a record breaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmZ5BvGP9Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/QmZ5BvGP9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/675770645905596420\">December 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fall for it: Lottie Moon&#8217;s ruined, miserable life is the exemplar for what is sick in Baptist teaching and why nobody should have anything to do with them.<\/p>\n<p>Moon was engaged to a Southern Seminary professor named Crawford Toy.  Toy went to Germany on a yearlong sabbatical to learn about the new methods of historical criticism which were then emerging, and came back skeptical of the literal truth of <i>Genesis<\/i>.  He was fired.  Moon eventually broke-off the engagement, explaining &#8220;God had first claim on my life, and since the two conflicted, there could be no question about the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toy went to Harvard, converted to Unitarianism, married, and had a long and well-regarded career.  Moon went to China, from which she sent home letters complaining about loneliness.  Eventually she went mad and was recalled; she died alone aboardship in a Japanese Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Akin, the president of Southeastern Seminary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/26983\/lessons-from-lottie-moons-life-recounted\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated<\/a> Moon&#8217;s decision not to marry:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Moon lived a sacrificial life in giving everything, including her chance to marry and even her own life, to reach people with the Gospel, Akin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is one living sacrifice Lottie made that I especially wish to draw to your attention,&#8221; Akin said. &#8220;Miss Moon never married, though she did receive a proposal that she would turn down.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, you know, marriage interferes with total devotion to the cult.  Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the anniversary of Lottie Moon&#8217;s birth 175-years ago. Since the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s International Missions Board has lost tens of millions of dollars over just the past two years, and is selling-off property and recalling missionaries to make-up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}