{"id":417,"date":"2015-01-13T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:32","slug":"you-get-what-you-preach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/13\/you-get-what-you-preach\/","title":{"rendered":"You Get What You Preach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my mentors once taught\u00a0me &#8220;You get what you preach&#8221; and it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A couple years ago I taught on tithing. We saw a $19,000 a month increase after that message.<\/li>\n<li>Today Andrew is preaching on water baptism. Guess what people are doing after each service? Signing up to be baptized!<\/li>\n<li>When I teach on evangelism leading up to Easter guess what our people do? They invite their friends!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on but I think you get the point. You get what you preach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I&#8217;m not seeing people get saved like they should, I preach salvation.<\/li>\n<li>If I&#8217;m not seeing people get water baptized like they should, I preach baptism.<\/li>\n<li>If I&#8217;m not seeing the tithes and offerings come in as they should, I preach giving.<\/li>\n<li>If there&#8217;s a shortage of volunteers, I preach serving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I do this because <strong>you get what you preach!\u00a0<\/strong>What would you like to see that you&#8217;re not currently seeing in your church? This is what you need to preach more on because (one last time) you get what you preach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my mentors once taught\u00a0me &#8220;You get what you preach&#8221; and it&#8217;s true. A couple years ago I taught on tithing. We saw a $19,000 a month increase after that message. Today Andrew is preaching on water baptism. Guess what people are doing after each service? Signing up to be baptized! When I teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-preaching","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}