{"id":6378,"date":"2025-01-17T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/?post_type=people&#038;p=6378"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T02:31:06","slug":"matt-smethurst","status":"publish","type":"contributor","link":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/cbimedia\/contributor\/matt-smethurst\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smethurst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Matt Smethurst is lead pastor of <a href=\"https:\/\/rivercityrichmond.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">River City Baptist Church<\/a> in Richmond, Virginia; editor at The Gospel Coalition; and author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Before-You-Share-Your-Faith\/dp\/1913896846\/?tag=thegospcoal-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Before You Share Your Faith: Five Ways to Be Evangelism Ready<\/a> (2022), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deacons-Strengthen-Building-Healthy-Churches\/dp\/1433571625\/?tag=thegospcoal-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church<\/a> (2021), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Before-You-Open-Your-Bible\/dp\/1912373718\/?tag=thegospcoal-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Before You Open Your Bible: Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God\u2019s Word<\/a> (2019), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1-2-Thessalonians-12-Week-Study-Knowing\/dp\/1433553856\/?tag=thegospcoal-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1\u20132 Thessalonians: A 12-Week Study<\/a> (2017). You can <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MattSmethurst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6379,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"peopletype":[20,46],"class_list":["post-6378","contributor","type-contributor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peopletype-author","peopletype-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/6378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contributor"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/6378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/6378\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"peopletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/peopletype?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}