{"id":291,"date":"2017-07-01T04:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-07-01T04:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T09:14:17","slug":"how-then-can-we-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/matt-long\/2017\/07\/01\/how-then-can-we-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"How then can we be saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Please Pray:
\n– That we can continue to persevere in learning language
\n– That God will give us comfort and encouragement as we are\u00a0missing our family and friends
\n– That God will provide the right partners for us and that He will give us wisdom and peace in the process
\n– That we will have hearts to love others well even amidst a lot going on in our own lives
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\nPraise God:
\n– He more than answered your prayers for Ty to do well in bush orientation
\n– We are continuing to make progress in language learning
\n– Our boys seem to be handling transitions better and better
\n– God is continuing to provide for our house fund
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“How then can we be saved? \u00a0All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” – Isaiah 64:5b-6<\/h1>\n


\nIn case any of us would like to think that our good works can get us to heaven or earn us points with God, the Bible makes it clear that we are utterly hopeless. \u00a0Our best acts are nothing but filth in comparison to God’s standards. \u00a0How then can we be saved? \u00a0As Romans 7:24 says, “What a wretched man I am! \u00a0Who will rescue me from this body of death? \u00a0Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” \u00a0Praise God, He sent Jesus to die for our sins, so that if we believe in Him and His provision for us, we can be saved. \u00a0It is through faith that Jesus alone paid for our sins that we can be saved.
\nWe just always want to remind ourselves of the gospel. \u00a0That’s why we’re here. \u00a0When we miss family or face trials and unknowns, we remind ourselves that telling people about Jesus is worth it. \u00a0Let’s all try this week to tell someone about Jesus’ work for them!
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We just completed our “bush orientation.” \u00a0For five weeks, we lived in a tribal location where there was a local church already established by New Tribes. \u00a0We got to live by a missionary there and learn about more remote living, see what an indigenous church can be like, and learn about living and interacting with the local people in a village.<\/p>\n

We loved our time there, but no one loved it as much as Ty did. \u00a0Every morning, he would go out to greet all his local friends who were waiting at the gate and invite them in our yard to play. \u00a0Whatever they were doing, he wanted to be doing, whether it was gathering water, cooking fish, swimming, playing ball, picking mulberries, or sliding on the old satellite dish. \u00a0He even started trying to speak Tok Pisin. \u00a0He embraced what we call “becoming PNG.” \u00a0The rest of us enjoyed it too. \u00a0It was cool to get to see the local church and spend time with the missionary there. \u00a0Karissa improved one level in Tok Pisin and Matt improved two!
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\nNow we are at a New Tribes center in the highlands. \u00a0We are continuing our Tok Pisin study and waiting until we can start our western region orientation.
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\nTill All Know,<\/span>
\nMatt, Karissa, Ty, and Wyck Long<\/span>
\n(Tribal Church Planters in Papua New Guinea)<\/span><\/p>\n


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