{"id":9550,"date":"2025-10-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:31:48","slug":"sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/cbimedia\/article\/sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinners or Saints \u2014 How Should We Speak of Christians?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have translated this article into Japanese here, <a href=\"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/cbimedia\/article\/sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians\/\">\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u306f\u7f6a\u4eba\uff1f\u3000\u8056\u5f92\uff1f<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the original in English, visit Desiring God,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/four-ways-to-fight-sexual-sin\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have translated this article into Japanese here, \u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u306f\u7f6a\u4eba\uff1f\u3000\u8056\u5f92\uff1f. To read the original in English, visit Desiring God, https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/sinners-or-saints-how-should-we-speak-of-christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9553,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8,87],"tags":[88,293,204],"class_list":["post-9550","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-counseling","category-en","tag-pastoral-ministry","tag-saints","tag-sin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10912,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9550\/revisions\/10912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}