{"id":4120,"date":"2010-03-26T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:41:50","slug":"now-that-is-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2010\/03\/26\/now-that-is-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Now THAT is dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4121\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/03\/abau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4121\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2010\/03\/abau-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"An Abau Bible teachers shares a lesson.\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Abau Bible teachers shares a lesson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s dedication look like to you?<\/p>\n<p>Got a picture in mind yet?<\/p>\n<p>Now compare that with this Bible teacher from the Abau tribe in Papua   New Guinea, who teaches in a neighboring village each week. Here\u2019s what he said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Wednesday I leave our village and go to this other village to share God&#8217;s talk to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe walk is not an easy walk. It is a six-hour hike.\u00a0 Sometimes if I go with my family, it&#8217;s even longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when I go, I don&#8217;t have any food. I don&#8217;t when I will get to eat. I get very hungry during the hike. But I remember Jesus tells us not to worry about our life, what we will drink and eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other things I can do around the village, like hunting, gathering food or just sitting around. But those things \u2018belong to the ground.\u2019 Telling others about God&#8217;s talk is God&#8217;s work. I know God wants me to go. God wants me to tell them about His talk. So I just keep on going and trust in God. The people there need to hear God&#8217;s talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s dedication look like to you? Got a picture in mind yet? Now compare that with this Bible teacher from the Abau tribe in Papua New Guinea, who teaches in a neighboring village each week. Here\u2019s what he said: &#8220;Every Wednesday I leave our village and go to this other village to share God&#8217;s talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[29,42],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","tag-bible","tag-character","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}