{"id":279,"date":"2011-07-15T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:45:39","slug":"sharing-the-faith-sharing-our-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/sharing-the-faith-sharing-our-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The Faith, Sharing Our Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"text in ESV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?passage=Exodus+18%3A1-12\" target=\"_blank\">Exodus 18:1-12<\/a> is a good ol&#8217; fashioned &#8220;I once was lost, but now I&#8217;m found&#8221; story of one man&#8217;s conversion to faith\/loyalty to the one true God. Moses&#8217; treatment of his father-in-law Jethro shows us much about how to care for and relate to those we love who aren&#8217;t enjoying a personal relationship with that same God through Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Moses:<br \/>\n&lt;&gt; cares for Jethro through hospitality,<br \/>\n&lt;&gt; honors him<em> (bowing down to greet him),<\/em><br \/>\n&lt;&gt; speaks to him of God&#8217;s care for His people<em> (all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh for Israel&#8217;s sake)<\/em><br \/>\n&lt;&gt; vulnerably tells him that being loved by and following God can be hard <em>(all the hardship that had come upon them in the way)<br \/>\n&lt;&gt; <\/em>speaks <strong><em>again<\/em><\/strong> to him of God&#8217;s care for His people<em> (how the Lord delivered them)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/sharing-the-faith-sharing-our-faith\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"text in ESV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?passage=Exodus+18%3A1-12\" target=\"_blank\">Exodus 18:1-12<\/a> is a good ol&#8217; fashioned &#8220;I once was lost, but now I&#8217;m found&#8221; story of one man&#8217;s conversion to faith\/loyalty to the one true God. Moses&#8217; treatment of his father-in-law Jethro shows us much about how to care for and relate to those we love who aren&#8217;t enjoying [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-conversion","tag-evangelism","tag-exodus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-4v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}