{"id":248,"date":"2011-11-08T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:46:19","slug":"fear-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Fear not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The man who fears dying dies 100 times&#8221; Charlie Chan<\/p>\n<p>It is very true when it comes to evangelism, that fears sometimes can play a big role in what we do and do not do in ministry. There are of course many risks. The quote I cited, is not simply about death &#8211; it is about even &#8220;small deaths&#8221; or even &#8220;financial deaths&#8221; or perhaps &#8220;reputation deaths&#8221;. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Often times, we try and rationalize things in a way as to really excuse ourselves. We might be afraid of loosing our job by witnessing to someone, so we will never try and in a way die a little. <\/p>\n<p>We might then spend days or months or even years, wondering what could have happened. <\/p>\n<p>The same is true for many other areas. For example, perhaps you wanted to go to Tunisia right now. You might wonder, well I should wait and see if things get better. Only to find out that 5 years from now things got worse and you missed your window of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, go out today! Do something. Today only happens once and then it is gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psalm 118:6<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The man who fears dying dies 100 times&#8221; Charlie Chan It is very true when it comes to evangelism, that fears sometimes can play a big role in what we do and do not do in ministry. There are of course many risks. The quote I cited, is not simply about death &#8211; it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}