{"id":4936,"date":"2014-06-08T03:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T03:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2014-06-08T03:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T03:19:39","slug":"thats-just-something-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/thats-just-something-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s just something I do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a busy one as far as teaching. On Tuesday I began a 6-week series on salvation, and be began looking at what the good news is, and just touched on some basic terms&#8230;justification, sanctification, glorification. Saved from the penalty, power and (eventually) the presence of sin.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening the young people asked met to teach on evangelism. About 10 of them will be traveling to Veracruz, a coastal state, in July, and will be involved in a number of evangelistic activities. Every one of them used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativemin.com\/product\/468\/magic_specialty_props\">Bible Coloring Book<\/a>, a sort of magic prop that reveals different things inside depending on where you hold the pages. A shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.ogilvie.944?fref=ts\">Andrew Oglivie<\/a>, who may have to bring a few less pairs of underwear in order to accommodate all the packages we&#8217;re sending him!<\/p>\n<p>One of the major points in our talk on evangelism is that salvation is a PROCESS. It requires sowing, watering and finally, sometimes, reaping. We won&#8217;t reap if we never sow. We can&#8217;t make a seed grow, that&#8217;s God&#8217;s job. Both Hector and Daniel were there, both men in the church who have been saved a bit over a year and less than a year. Daniel will be baptized July 6. Hector was baptized last year.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel told me that most of his 500+ Facebook friends are not saved. So he sends them verses, graphics, messages. &#8220;You send them personal, individual messages to all your friends?&#8221; I asked him. &#8220;Yes, and many have commented on how I&#8217;ve changed. That&#8217;s something I can do, so that&#8217;s just something I do.&#8221; Evangelism, to Daniel, is the most normal thing in the world. You don&#8217;t have to teach a new believer of it&#8217;s importance. Something some of us with years in the faith would do well to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Below: Daniel and some others hanging a tarp this evening<a href=\"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4939\" src=\"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a busy one as far as teaching. On Tuesday I began a 6-week series on salvation, and be began looking at what the good news is, and just touched on some basic terms&#8230;justification, sanctification, glorification. 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