{"id":363,"date":"2019-09-03T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=363"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:02:36","slug":"going-going-gone-but-new-opportunities-await-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2019\/09\/03\/going-going-gone-but-new-opportunities-await-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Going, going, gone\u2026 but new opportunities await us!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/files\/2019\/09\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\" width=\"166\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/files\/2019\/09\/image-9.png 240w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/files\/2019\/09\/image-9-105x110.png 105w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/files\/2019\/09\/image-9-238x250.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nare just a few weeks from wrapping up our summer ministry activities of\nspeaking in camps and doing mission-focused events.&nbsp; Not only do these venues provide opportunity\nto share the gospel and to motivate others to join in the task of declaring\nChrist to those living beyond the reach of the gospel, these events bring an\nawareness to many believers who aren\u2019t aware that there is a task to be completed.&nbsp; Recent statistics show that great numbers of\nour American church-goers never heard of \u2018the Great Commission.\u2019&nbsp; Of course the task at hand is not labeled in\nthe scriptures as such, although Christendom has named it accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Barna Group conducted a poll on this and the results were startling.\u00a0 As you can see pictured, 51% of churchgoers never heard of the Great Commission; 25% recall hearing of it but are unsure of its meaning, while another 17% say they\u2019ve heard of it but cannot define\nit.&nbsp; Another 6% are uncertain whether or\nnot they ever heard of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we launch our Fall recruitment efforts we are looking to connect with some of those churches who have little-to-no involvement with the work Jesus gave the church to do in making disciples among those outside the hearing of the gospel.\u00a0 While we sing \u201cBring Them\nIn\u2019 Jesus continues to say \u201cGO.\u201d&nbsp; \u2026And\nwhile He says \u2018go\u2019 He promises to go with\nus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While offering to assist churches in developing solid biblical strategies to engage the Great Commission effort, we are also ramping up our consulting and mentoring efforts with those sensing God\u2019s leading in the motivation to serve.\u00a0 Please pray for us in this venture\nas well as in our work among schools and colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are just a few weeks from wrapping up our summer ministry activities of speaking in camps and doing mission-focused events.&nbsp; Not only do these venues provide opportunity to share the gospel and to motivate others to join in the task of declaring Christ to those living beyond the reach of the gospel, these events [&hellip;]<\/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":{"0":"post-363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}