{"id":4628,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/turn-to-the-living-god\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","slug":"turn-to-the-living-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/turn-to-the-living-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn To The Living God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Acts series.    Paul &#038; Barnabas in Lystra.       Acts 14:8-20<\/p>\n<p>                              ======================<br \/>\n                              TURN TO THE LIVING GOD<br \/>\n                              ======================<\/p>\n<p>     I. The joy of miscommunication.<\/p>\n<p>    II. The Great Expansion of the Church.<br \/>\n         A. Paul&#8217;s first missionary journey was a bold move.<br \/>\n         B. In Lystra they enter purely pagan territory.<\/p>\n<p>   III. How to preach to pagans.<br \/>\n         A. A pagan is someone who is ignorant of God.<br \/>\n         B. Paul meets them on common ground.<\/p>\n<p>    IV. What if Barnabas and Paul came to New Jersey today?<br \/>\n         A. People remain attracted to a faith that &#8220;works.&#8221;        14:9-10<br \/>\n         B. People want a living faith.                             14:15<br \/>\n         C. Creation can still direct people to God.                14:17<\/p>\n<p>     V. Do you serve the living God?<br \/>\n                                                                         #2539<\/p>\n<p> *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Acts series. Paul &#038; Barnabas in Lystra. Acts 14:8-20 ====================== TURN TO THE LIVING GOD ====================== I. The joy of miscommunication. II. The Great Expansion of the Church. A. Paul&#8217;s first missionary journey was a bold move. B. In Lystra they enter purely pagan territory. III. How to preach to pagans. A. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[363,4027,4028,1961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}