{"id":27820,"date":"2020-08-03T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27820"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:49:17","slug":"self-promotion-or-gods-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27820","title":{"rendered":"Self promotion or God&#8217;s introduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Buti Sam Kputu <\/strong><br \/>\nThe card read: &#8220;Rev.Dr. Apostle Sharp Sharp&#8221; (not real name). &#8220;Demon Destroyer (DD)&#8221;, &#8220;Barreness Bulldozer (BB)&#8221;, &#8221; Satan Bus Stop (SBS)&#8221; All describing this young man I met at conference at which we were co-speakers. And he demanded to be so introduced before his session. I wondered how Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, would be introduced.<br \/>\nWe live in an age of self-obsession, self-promotion and personal advertising (selfies?). And the social media platforms have made it easy for such to be globalized. Sadly, even God&#8217;s children and servants that ought to be epitomes of humility and self-effacement get sucked into it. Stealing God&#8217;s glory?<br \/>\nOur Lord Jesus Christ and His ministry were validated by other witnesses: The Scriptures, Testimonies from men, The Father in Heaven and the Fruits of His life and ministry. Hear Him: \u201cIf I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid&#8221;. John 5:31 AMP.<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_200803_144046_713.sdoc--><br \/>\n<strong>\u25aa\ufe0e Kputu, the International Director of Calvary Ministries (CAPRO), lives in Lagos, and sent this via WhatsApp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buti Sam Kputu The card read: &#8220;Rev.Dr. Apostle Sharp Sharp&#8221; (not real name). &#8220;Demon Destroyer (DD)&#8221;, &#8220;Barreness Bulldozer (BB)&#8221;, &#8221; Satan Bus Stop (SBS)&#8221; All describing this young man I met at conference at which we were co-speakers. And he demanded to be so introduced before his session. I wondered how Jesus, the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}