{"id":35012,"date":"2023-02-16T03:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=35012"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:48:48","slug":"february-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2023\/02\/16\/february-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"February 16, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-Dear-Abigail-Template-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Reluctant Evangelist<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dear Abigail,<\/p>\n<p>Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses keep coming to my door. I usually just tell them I already go to church and politely refuse their pamphlets. I\u2019d really like to witness to them. What do I say that could make a difference for Jesus\u2019 kingdom?<\/p>\n<p><em>-Reluctant Evangelist <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Reluctant,<\/p>\n<p>It might help to start with some common ground. Ask them who God is, and whether they believe the entire Bible. (They\u2019ll probably say yes.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, ask them who Jesus is. They will probably say he is the savior, and the son of God, but not God. Look up some verses ahead of time where Jesus talks about being God, like John 10:30 which says, \u201c<em>I and the Father are One,\u201d <\/em>or John 14:9, <em>\u201cThe one who has seen Me has seen the Father.\u201d<\/em> Many verses in Hebrews point to Jesus coming from the Father and returning there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you are not taking verses out of context (and that they aren\u2019t, either!) by reading what came before and after. If you want to prepare even further, research their beliefs and take some time to look up verses that speak to those topics.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, remember that it\u2019s not your clever words that will save anyone, but the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, so don\u2019t overthink the words but just be obedient to share. The Holy Spirit will do His work. Oh, and don\u2019t forget to pray!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.\u201d <\/em>1 Corinthians 1:17<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-96I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35014,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions\/35014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}