{"id":1283,"date":"2025-09-03T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:30:26","slug":"whatever-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhatever It Takes\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\">\u201cTo the weak I became weak, to win the weak.\u00a0I have become all things to all people\u00a0so that by all possible means I might save some.\u201d 1 Corinthians 9:22<\/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\">When Jesus finally lassoed my heart, His expectations for my life were completely opposite of my own. I&nbsp; pictured myself as inward focused, becoming very holy, sinning less and doing more atta-boy jobs to win His favor. God\u2019s thinking was a bit more outward focused. It seems He envisioned a more aggressive me; someone breaking down the doors of peoples hearts and dragging them into His presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being an evangelist is risky business, especially if you believe you\u2019re doing all the work and Jesus is just a spectator. NOT! He\u2019s in the game and quarterbacking every play. Me? My job is to play the position He assigns me and to be where I\u2019m supposed to be when I\u2019m supposed to be there. My role is to do whatever it takes and then give Him all the glory.<\/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\">Have I become all things to all people\u00a0so that by all possible means I might save some?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cTo the weak I became weak, to win the weak.\u00a0I have become all things to all people\u00a0so that by all possible means I might save some.\u201d 1 Corinthians 9:22 Applying God\u2019s Word When Jesus finally lassoed my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1283\">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":[37,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible","category-books-of-the-bible-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}