{"id":616,"date":"2007-11-19T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/sharing-the-good-news\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:27:54","slug":"sharing-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/sharing-the-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drrichardyen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Yen<\/a> said this in his email update:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a Thanksgiving party yesterday, I met a couple who marveled how well I looked after a heart attack. I asked if they had ever received Jesus as their personal Savior. They were not sure and so I talked to them after dinner. They then prayed to receive the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always admired Richard for his boldness in sharing Jesus with people.<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into a friend at the market last week. I asked her if she had been attending church. She looked guilty and made some excuses. My intent was not to make her defensive, but I suppose that type of question would elicit that type of response. Since my concern is really her spiritual life, I should have just asked her straight. I should approach sharing the gospel more positively instead of skirting around the issue about church. It is not productive, and comes off negative.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I am going to try Richard Yen&#8217;s approach and what my son said to me yesterday. &#8220;Have you had the opportunity to received Jesus as your personal Savior? May I share with you how you can?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Romans 1:16 &#8220;For <span class=\"hl\">I<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">am<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">not<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">ashamed<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">of<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">the<\/span> <span class=\"hl\">gospel<\/span>, for it is God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power for salvation to everyone who believes&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Richard Yen said this in his email update: &#8220;At a Thanksgiving party yesterday, I met a couple who marveled how well I looked after a heart attack. I asked if they had ever received Jesus as their personal Savior. They were not sure and so I talked to them after dinner. They then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}