{"id":15068,"date":"2011-02-10T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=15068"},"modified":"2011-02-10T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T12:57:30","slug":"why-are-we-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/why-are-we-here\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY ARE WE HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why are YOU here? On this earth – in THIS country – residing in THIS town – knowing the people that you know?<\/p>\n

I know the answer.<\/p>\n

To share the good news of Jesus with everyone you meet – everyone you know – everyone you come in contact with!<\/p>\n

Do you do it? I don’t. I need to.<\/p>\n

Why is it so hard – the people in my life are people that I want to go to heaven – to escape the eternity of hell we all deserve.<\/p>\n

There are people that aren’t in my life – that I have never met – the need to know Jesus. EVERYONE needs to know Jesus – everyone needs to be spared the eternity of hell.<\/p>\n

Why is it that I can’t talk to my best friends about the importance of accepting Jesus – my grandparents – my aunts and uncles?<\/p>\n

Why is it that I can write about it so openly on here – it’s not anonymous – you know who I am.<\/p>\n

My aunt L – my DEAR aunt L<\/a> – recently started an evangelism class. In her class there was a challenge – to share the love of Christ with one person you didn’t know that week. Most of the time I think it’s much easier to share with someone you don’t know than someone you do. If you share with someone you don’t know and they think you are crazy – you don’t have to see them again – most likely! When you share your love of Jesus with someone you know – someone you are close to – and they think you are crazy – you don’t have anywhere to go!<\/p>\n

And that reason alone is one of the big reasons why I don’t share the way I should – which is weird because I normally don’t care what people think of me!<\/p>\n

So here goes with the first step!<\/p>\n

God created the universe – every last ounce of matter! He created you and me. He loves you and me. We sin – every day. Sin separates us from God – Jesus bridges that gap. Jesus is God’s son – who died – for you and me. He takes on our sin so that we don’t have to live in hell for eternity – be separated from God. Ask Him into your heart – ask Him into your life! Ask Him to CHANGE your life – to change the way you think – the way you interact – the way you LIVE!<\/p>\n

You will not regret it!!<\/p>\n

So I leave you with this challenge – this week share Jesus with someone you don’t know – let me know how it goes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next week – share with someone you DO know – someone that doesn’t know Jesus – let me know how it goes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praying for your encounters!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why are YOU here? On this earth – in THIS country – residing in THIS town – knowing the people that you know? I know the answer. To share the good news of Jesus with everyone you meet – everyone you know – everyone you come in contact with! Do you do it? I don’t. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,24,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}