{"id":337,"date":"2010-05-17T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/?p=337"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:22:06","slug":"46-pass-through-the-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/2010\/05\/17\/46-pass-through-the-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"46 Pass through &#8220;The Gate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\"The 46 Graduates of May 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/77\/files\/classes-students\/graduation-spring-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/77\/files\/classes-students\/thumbs\/thumbs_graduation-spring-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Class of May 2010                       \" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebration Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>&#8220;As you pass through the gate, will you continue to believe?&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>That was the essence of the question posed to our 46 NTBI Jackson graduates by Rich Bruce, NTBI Faculty\u00a0speaker. Selected by the class, Rich challenged each one to continue to walk in the truth they now have; the truth about God;\u00a0the truth of who they are in Christ. <!--more-->As they do, he assured them that they could do what seems impossible&#8230;reaching those without the Gospel. Joel Spears, one of the\u00a0class speakers reminded us that there are still 2,500 unreached people groups and that it is our responsibility&#8230;the church&#8217;s responsibility \u00a0to see them reached. Cassie Bouska, the other class speaker encouraged the class to remember that it takes God&#8217;s life in them to accomplish a life worthy of the Gospel. It was an encouraging time for sure as over 400 friends and\u00a0 family members\u00a0gathered to honor the next wave of potential missionaries. Please pray that the Lord would give wisdom as each one\u00a0looks to Him for their next step in using what they have learned during their two years of studying the Bible and getting to know God firsthand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As you pass through the gate, will you continue to believe?&#8221; That was the essence of the question posed to our 46 NTBI Jackson graduates by Rich Bruce, NTBI Faculty\u00a0speaker. Selected by the class, Rich challenged each one to continue to walk in the truth they now have; the truth about God;\u00a0the truth of who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,2714,1775],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-news-article","8":"category-ntbi-jackson","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rex-schaffner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}