{"id":969,"date":"2022-02-05T22:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:26:40","slug":"special-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSpecial Connection\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\">\u201cWhatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24<\/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\u2019ve been asked so many times which church community I belong to. Most folks are a little surprised when I say that I attend a small conservative Catholic church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At age seven, I received my Holy Communion. It was one of my most memorable experiences as a young boy. Becoming an alter server a couple years later made receiving communion even more meaningful. That in turn inspired me to join the Franciscan Seminary at Old Mission Santa Barbara, for one year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God has blessed me by allowing me to worship with Christians of various denominations in many different churches. By doing so, He has given me a great deal of admiration for Christians around the world. At times, I\u2019ve even found the music and preaching in other churches to be superior to that of my own church. For me, however, there is still that special connection between myself and the consecrated Eucharist. It\u2019s more powerful now than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It hasn\u2019t been easy being Catholic, but it\u2019s one of the places God has asked me to serve Him. A wise man once said, \u201cLook for a church that is unpopular with the spirit of the world.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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\">Is the church I\u2019m attending the one God has sent me to serve in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cWhatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord a reward. It is the Lord &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=969\">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-969","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\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}