{"id":1297,"date":"2025-10-18T20:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:34:50","slug":"gentleness-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGentleness &amp; Respect\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\">\u201cAlways be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.\u201d 1 Peter 3:15<\/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\">Last Tuesday, my flight from Phoenix to Palm Springs was delayed. Instead of waiting one hour at the gate, it would be two hours. I raised my spiritual antenna and looked for a place to sit. Too many people in a small area and they all seemed to be hiding behind phones, air-pods, laptops or books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord directed me to a seat next to a gentleman staring out the window. As I sat down, I asked, \u201cIs Phoenix home?\u201d He smiled and said, \u201cNo. I\u2019m hear on business and then home to Raleigh.\u201d Wow! Someone who actually wanted to carry on a conversation. God had us talking about everything from soup to nuts; wives, kids, families, work and most importantly our faith in Jesus Christ. In the presence of God, we talked to each other with gentleness and respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where did that two hours go? :&gt;) As we stood up to say goodbye he said, \u201cYou really blessed me today.\u201d I replied, \u201cGod blessed us both.\u201d<\/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\">Am I too busy in my own world to talk with others? Do I talk with gentleness and respect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cAlways be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.\u201d 1 Peter 3:15 Applying God\u2019s Word Last Tuesday, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1297\">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-1297","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\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}