{"id":832,"date":"2020-07-10T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2020-07-10T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:55:08","slug":"crossing-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCrossing Over\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJesus answered,\u00a0\u201cI am\u00a0the way\u00a0and the truth\u00a0and the life.\u00a0No one comes to the Father except through me.\u201d John 14:6<\/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\">Once upon a time, a man attending a spiritual retreat, ended up walking along a deep gorge. He appreciated the beautiful path he was on, but the landscape on the other side of the gorge looked more appealing. Unfortunately, crossing over seemed too challenging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the man spotted something peculiar. There was a stranger walking across the gorge on a tightrope. The stranger said, \u201cI can show you around on the other side.\u201d The man asked, \u201cHow do I cross over?\u201d The stranger went back, grabbed a wheelbarrow and ran it across the tightrope to where the man stood and invited him to get in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t count the times Jesus had asked me to \u201cGet In\u201d, before I said yes. I was afraid to get in, but even more afraid when God asked me to invite others to get in, too.&nbsp;<\/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\">Do I know anyone else who is afraid to \u201cGet In\u201d? Am I afraid to ask them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God Word \u201cJesus answered,\u00a0\u201cI am\u00a0the way\u00a0and the truth\u00a0and the life.\u00a0No one comes to the Father except through me.\u201d John 14:6 Applying God\u2019s Word Once upon a time, a man attending a spiritual retreat, ended up walking along a deep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=832\">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-832","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\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}