{"id":3545,"date":"2008-09-02T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T02:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/awtozer\/calling-us-back"},"modified":"2008-09-28T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T02:29:00","slug":"calling-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/09\/02\/calling-us-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Us Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism <\/p>\n<p>Every notable advance in the saving work of God among men will, if examined, be found to have two factors present: several converging lines of providential circumstances and a person. <\/p>\n<p>Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray, 50. <\/p>\n<p>Evangelism: Calling Us Back <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, &quot;&quot;Where are you?&quot;&quot; &#8211;Genesis 3:9 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the human mind stubbornly resists and resents the suggestion that it is a sick, fallen planet upon which we ride, everything within our consciousness, our innermost spirit, confirms that the voice of God is sounding in this world&#8211;the voice of God calling, seeking, beckoning to lost men and women!&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Sacred revelation declares plainly that the inhabitants of the earth are lost. They are lost by a mighty calamitous visitation of woe which came upon them somewhere in that distant past and is still upon them. <\/p>\n<p>But it also reveals a glorious fact&#8211;that this lost race has not been given up! <\/p>\n<p>There is a divine voice that continues to call. It is the voice of the Creator, God, and it is entreating them. <\/p>\n<p>Just as the shepherd went everywhere searching for his sheep, just as the woman in the parable went everywhere searching for her coins, so there is a divine search with many variations of the voice that entreats us, calling us back&#8230;. Echoes from Eden, 3,8. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;&quot;Thank You, Father, for Your grace that continues to call so patiently. Lord, You&#8217;re calling some today with whom I could have the privilege of sharing the Gospel. Give me a sensitivity today to opportunities where I might be Your human voice. Amen.&quot;&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism Every notable advance in the saving work of God among men will, if examined, be found to have two factors present: several converging lines of providential circumstances and a person. Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray, 50. Evangelism: Calling Us Back Then the Lord God called to Adam and said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}