{"id":1090,"date":"2023-07-01T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2023-07-01T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:57:09","slug":"staying-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStaying Together\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow good and pleasant it is when God\u2019s people live together\u00a0in unity!\u201d Psalm 133<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I grew up in a time when unity was a value; something handed down from one generation to another. Unfortunately, we do not see much of that any longer. We have let our rigidity, indifference, selfishness, and opinions destroy the beautiful gift of being united with one another. We let what we disagree on keep us apart instead of allowing the things we agree on to keep us together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My cousin\u2019s family has a tradition of coming together every Friday night. We have been to a few of their Friday night gatherings. It is a beautiful thing to experience. Okay, I am jealous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Fourth of July, Louise and I are praying that God will restore the value of unity in families around the world. Without unity we are lost and so is our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is unity a value to me? Have a safe and blessed Fourth of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cHow good and pleasant it is when God\u2019s people live together\u00a0in unity!\u201d Psalm 133 Applying God\u2019s Word I grew up in a time when unity was a value; something handed down from one generation to another. Unfortunately, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}