{"id":699,"date":"2019-03-03T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2019-03-03T00:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:16:35","slug":"luke-154-one-lost-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Luke 15:4 \u201cOne Lost Sheep\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?\u201d Luke 15:4 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, Louise and I handed out over seven hundred copies of Matthew Kelly\u2019s book titled \u201cResisting Happiness\u201d. Those people, who actually took time to read it, were challenged to say the least.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far this year, we have handed out over eight hundred copies of Matthew Kelly\u2019s newest release titled \u201cThe Biggest Lie In The History Of Christianity\u201d. Several people have told us how touched they were by reading it.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not everyone who receives this weekly \u201cChallenge\u201d reads it. Not everyone will read the books we give out. God is searching for the one person who will, though. It is through that one conversion experience and testimony that God can reach the other \u201cOnes\u201d who want to be found.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is always looking for the one lost sheep.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Am I reading holy books? Am I looking for the one lost sheep or hiding among the other ninety-nine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cSuppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?\u201d Luke 15:4 Applying God\u2019s Word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","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\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}