{"id":2241,"date":"2010-10-25T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2011-01-14T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:41:05","slug":"unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2010\/10\/25\/unwanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2242\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2242\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2010\/10\/25\/unwanted\/batsun-newsap11388_img\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2242 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/files\/2010\/10\/Batsun-newsAP11388_img.jpg\" alt=\"Now Batsun shares God's grace with his uncle\" width=\"130\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/files\/2010\/10\/Batsun-newsAP11388_img.jpg 130w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/files\/2010\/10\/Batsun-newsAP11388_img-99x110.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now Batsun shares God&#39;s grace with his uncle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sun is low in the sky but the shadows refuse to lesson the muggy tropical heat as a young Banwaon mother carries her tiny baby deep into the jungle.\u00a0 \u201c He\u2019s too small to survive\u201d they urged her.\u00a0 \u201cYou must let him die.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Hesitantly, she places the naked baby, still sticky from birth, on the dirt and walks away.\u00a0 The infant cries weakly, unaware it will soon be his last. Predators are already watching, waiting.<\/p>\n<p>But another sound appears. A man is searching.\u00a0 The baby\u2019s uncle pities the child, takes him as his own, and teaches him the old ways.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a grown man, Batsun has heard the gospel and put his faith in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 \u201cJust as you pulled me from the jungle, I want to pull you from the spirits\u2019 ways.\u201d Batsun urges his old uncle. \u201cBelieve in Jesus. Trust Him, not the spirits. One day we will live together in God\u2019s house.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batsun was left to die, but now he shares life giving words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[4,3540],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-news-article","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}