{"id":278,"date":"2017-07-20T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=278"},"modified":"2017-07-20T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T02:53:36","slug":"how-well-do-you-connect-with-gods-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2017\/07\/20\/how-well-do-you-connect-with-gods-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"How well do you connect with God\u2019s truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While\u00a0presenting a biblical overview of teaching God\u2019s Word chronologically I illustrated a teaching point with a video clip from the story \u201cEe-taow.\u201d\u00a0 The video clip portrays the response of Mouk tribesmen to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.\u00a0 Upon hearing the story it was evident that they were grasping an understanding of their sinfulness before Holy God when they exclaimed, \u201cWe are just like those people of Sodom and Gomorrah.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast to the Mouk response I shared the response from among another tribe who heard the same story.\u00a0 Some shouted, \u201cIf this is how God judged those\u00a0people for their wickedness, what is He going to do with us?\u00a0 We are far, more wicked than the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far, m<\/em><\/strong>ore wicked than the people of Sodom and\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Gomorrah???<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve begun polling my audiences on this, asking \u201cHow many of us would compare our wickedness to that of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, let alone say we are far, more wicked than they?\u201d\u00a0 No one, absolutely no one\u00a0raises their hand when I ask that compelling question.\u00a0 I\u2019ve wondered why that is and I believe I\u2019ve come up\u00a0with the answer.\u00a0 No one, absolutely no one wants to admit they are sinful or have a sinful nature.\u00a0 \u2026And this is\u00a0among good churched people and students in Christian colleges with lots of biblical knowledge.<\/p>\n

The real challenge of understanding comes when we are faced with Jesus\u2019 command to \u2018make disciples among all [ethnos] nations (Mt 28:19-20).\u00a0 What did he expect, what does He want us to do about that?\u00a0 \u2026Or maybe better stated, \u201cWhat in the world are we doing for Heaven\u2019s sake?\u201d<\/p>\n

There are currently more than 2,500 ethnos (ethnicities\/people groups) of the world who are still unreached with the gospel.\u00a0 We are doing all we can to mobilize believers to the task of reaching them with the message that can deliver them from darkness, from the bondage of sin, and bring them into relationship with God through Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While\u00a0presenting a biblical overview of teaching God\u2019s Word chronologically I illustrated a teaching point with a video clip from the story \u201cEe-taow.\u201d\u00a0 The video clip portrays the response of Mouk tribesmen to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.\u00a0 Upon hearing the story it was evident that they were grasping an understanding of their sinfulness before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}