{"id":31134,"date":"2021-02-07T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31134"},"modified":"2021-02-07T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T12:22:26","slug":"our-core-business-as-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31134","title":{"rendered":"Our core business as believers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa\ufe0e<strong>Our Spiritual Mandate: <\/strong>Seeking the lost for salvation<br \/>&#8211;  Some lost as *<strong>PRODIGALS<\/strong>&#8216; : back sliders lured by the world or sheer rebellion. They have a choice.<br \/><br \/>&#8211; Some lost as &#8216;<strong>SHEEP<\/strong>&#8216; : no clear spiritual guidance or simply misguided. They are accessible<br \/><br \/>&#8211; Some lost as &#8216;<strong>COINS<\/strong>&#8216; : helpless by circumstances of their location. These are the unreached that must be sought and found.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;<strong>The Son of Man came to look for and to save people who are lost.&#8221; (Luke 19:10, CEV)<br \/><\/strong><br \/><strong>\u25aa\ufe0e Our Cultural Mandate: Facilitating Reconciliation_<\/strong>*<br \/>&#8211; Men to God <strong>spiritually<\/strong><br \/>&#8211; Men to men emotionally<br \/>&#8211; Men to the <strong>environment<\/strong><br \/>&#8211; Fractured communities<br \/><br \/><strong>All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation&#8221; (2Cor.5:18, NIV)<\/strong><br \/><br \/>\u00a9 <strong>Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu \u25aa\ufe0eOur Spiritual Mandate: Seeking the lost for salvation&#8211; Some lost as *PRODIGALS&#8216; : back sliders lured by the world or sheer rebellion. They have a choice. &#8211; Some lost as &#8216;SHEEP&#8216; : no clear spiritual guidance or simply misguided. They are accessible &#8211; Some lost as &#8216;COINS&#8216; : helpless by circumstances of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}