{"id":210,"date":"2016-03-24T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/?p=210"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:43:09","slug":"this-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/2016\/03\/24\/this-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Changes Everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7912-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"We had a wonderful time at First Baptist Church's missions weekend. \u00a0We love you FBC! \u00a0Thanks for being our sending church!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7912-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7912-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7912-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had a wonderful time at First Baptist Church&#8217;s missions weekend. \u00a0We love you FBC! \u00a0Thanks for being our sending church!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March Update<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cDid I miss something? Was I not supposed to cry? Did they hear the preacher, \u201cJesus is alive!\u201d? If this is true, this changes everything\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins\u2026 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.\u201d \u2013 1 Cor. 15:17 &amp;20<\/p>\n<p>How important is Easter? There is nothing more important! Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. What Easter means for us:<\/p>\n<p>Jesus died to take the punishment for our sins. He fully paid for them. There is nothing else for us to do to earn salvation. The resurrection shows that Jesus\u2019 death was enough.<br \/>\nJesus rose from the dead. This shows us that He has conquered death, and we too will live again.<br \/>\nIf we admit our need for Him, believe that He died for us and rose again, and let Him be Lord of our lives, we will be fully forgiven and live forever in heaven with God. Guaranteed.<br \/>\nThe same power that raised Christ from the dead is available to us to enable us to live for Him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026If this is real, I\u2019ve got to tell the world. If He is God, then I\u2019ve got a choice to make. If I believe, then I must follow Him.\u201d \u2013 Matt Papa, \u201cThis Changes Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have a wonderful Easter celebrating the event that truly changed everything, once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>Take a minute to watch Paiye of the Moi tribe in Papua New Guinea telling the Easter story in his own words. Our hope is that soon everyone in the Umeda tribe will have a chance to hear the Easter story too. Here is the link:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Easter Story \/\/ Ethnos360\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qGU5_knAKXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Matt, Karissa, Ty, and Wyck Long<\/p>\n<p>(enroute to be tribal church planters in Papua New Guinea)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-212\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7801-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"A picture that shows what it looks like to work from home, doing support raising while having two kids. (Talking on the phone with our coach and taking notes with red crayon.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7801-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7801-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/files\/2016\/03\/IMG_7801-600x370.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture that shows what it looks like to work from home, doing support raising while having two kids. (Talking on the phone with our coach and taking notes with red crayon.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Please Pray:<br \/>\nThat all would go well as we work on our Visa applications<br \/>\nFor someone that Karissa has been witnessing to, that her heart would be open to God\u2019s truth and that she would be willing to talk with Karissa about it<br \/>\nThat God would be provide the right people for us to partner with when we get to Papua New Guinea<br \/>\nPraise God:<br \/>\nHe answered your prayers for our boys to sleep well while we traveled. They slept better than they ever have, even at home. You must\u2019ve been praying!<br \/>\nWe had a great trip visiting Grace Bible Church!<br \/>\nWe are 73% funded!<br \/>\nAll four of us got our passports!<br \/>\nWe have another supporting church! (Thanks, Chico EFC!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Update \u201cDid I miss something? Was I not supposed to cry? Did they hear the preacher, \u201cJesus is alive!\u201d? If this is true, this changes everything\u2026\u201d \u201cAnd if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins\u2026 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1074,"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":[4,58],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-prayer-requests","8":"tag-ethnos360","9":"tag-new-tribes-mission","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}