{"id":20,"date":"2010-02-28T06:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T12:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/?p=20"},"modified":"2012-06-22T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:07:48","slug":"set-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/2010\/02\/28\/set-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21  \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/files\/2010\/02\/Kiri-at-work_1_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kristina selling her grilled chicken\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/files\/2010\/02\/Kiri-at-work_1_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/files\/2010\/02\/Kiri-at-work_1_2.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina selling her grilled chicken for a living<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We heard a wonderful testimony from <strong>Kiri<\/strong>\u00a0 (short for Kristina) during the New Year Day\u2019 service. She had some unsaved relatives staying with her for the holidays. She sat everyone down in a candlelit room (no electricity in the house) and passed out some bread and pop. Then she told them this: \u201cWhen we lived in our village back home, New Year\u2019s celebration meant one thing: a drinking party. We would drink too much, then we would fight and people would get hurt. We never got sad about this for very long because we didn\u2019t know any better. We were living in darkness and we didn\u2019t know any other way. But then God sent Barry and Lindy and their families. Just like God sent Moses to bring the Israel people out of slavery, he sent the missionaries to bring us out of the darkness into the light. Now that we live in the light, we have no more desire to spend New Year\u2019s the way we did in the past. It\u2019s like we have been <em><strong>set free!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>We have the Lord to thank for that!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>Col<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>1:12<\/strong><strong> \u2013 14<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201c&#8230;giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in <strong>the kingdom of light<\/strong>. For he has rescued us from <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>dominion of darkness<\/strong> and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We heard a wonderful testimony from Kiri\u00a0 (short for Kristina) during the New Year Day\u2019 service. She had some unsaved relatives staying with her for the holidays. She sat everyone down in a candlelit room (no electricity in the house) and passed out some bread and pop. Then she told them this: \u201cWhen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}