{"id":952,"date":"2015-08-26T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/?p=952"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:44:56","slug":"no-more-stooped-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/2015\/08\/26\/no-more-stooped-shoulders\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Stooped Shoulders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Depressed or Encouraged?<\/h3>\n

Can a quote be both depressing and encouraging all at once? I think so. At least I read one like that a few weeks back. It was from Tim and Tiffany Lanier. They’ve been working alongside Inapang believers in a cross-cultural evangelistic outreach to a neighboring Tangguat village. And the quote went like this:<\/p>\n

“The people are walking around the village with their arms crossed and their shoulders stooped. They are seeing they are completely ‘messed up’ by sin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depressing and encouraging all at once. Don\u2019t you agree? Tim Lanier certainly does. He wrote, \u201cWe rejoice at the Holy Spirit’s work in their hearts. As people must be lost before they can be saved, we praise God for this. And we praise God as their Hope is coming very soon!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hope Brings Rejoicing<\/h3>\n

As\u00a0I write this, stooped shoulders have been replaced with rejoicing. Months of teaching culminated in the Tangguat people of Papua New Guinea hearing how Christ took their place on the cross as the perfect sacrificial lamb. And better yet? They heard how He rose victorious from the grave.\u00a0Rejoice with me that one day we\u2019ll meet Tangguat believers in heaven!<\/p>\n

A Few\u00a0Testimonies<\/h3>\n

“There is nothing we can do to bring ourselves back to God. It is God alone! Jesus came and died for our sins and it is only because of Him that we can come to God.”<\/p>\n

“We always thought that we could help ourselves and that we could stand on our good works,\u201d said one more. \u201cBut now I have heard this story and I know that there is only one road \u2026. His blood was shed for our sins and He made one way, one door, for us to go through and it is that we must trust in Him.”<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus \u2026 is the one door to God. His blood was shed for us and if we believe in Him, then by that road we will come to God. He has completely erased all our sin and because of that I am so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Real Work Begins<\/h3>\n

\u201cPlease continue to pray for the Inapang church and for the newborn Tangguat church,” wrote Tim and Tiffany Lanier. “As you parents know, while pregnancy and labor are difficult, after the baby is born is when the real work begins.\u201d<\/p>\n

I love reading\u00a0updates about what God is doing around the world, and getting to partner in prayer. Would you join me in prayer for the this infant Tangguat church?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Depressed or Encouraged? Can a quote be both depressing and encouraging all at once? I think so. At least I read one like that a few weeks back. It was from Tim and Tiffany Lanier. They’ve been working alongside Inapang believers in a cross-cultural evangelistic outreach to a neighboring Tangguat village. And the quote went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"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":[1],"tags":[448,1863,637,3861],"class_list":{"0":"post-952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-evangelism","9":"tag-new-tribes-mission","10":"tag-tangguat","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}