{"id":2132,"date":"2018-07-13T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2018-07-13T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T01:19:54","slug":"why-do-the-good-ones-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2018\/07\/13\/why-do-the-good-ones-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do the good ones die?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently someone from the States said to us, \u201cI\u2019m tired of funerals\u201d.\u00a0 That is exactly how we feel.\u00a0 On July 5th<\/sup>, Nicodem Elis died at the age of 16.\u00a0 Who is Nicodem?\u00a0 Well, we can\u2019t tell you much about him.\u00a0 He lived on the other side of the village and we only saw him one week per year during Sports Bible Camp.\u00a0 Nicodem attended Sports Bible Camp in 2016, 2017, and in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Nicodem attending Sports Bible Camp 2017. He is the one holding the ball and has the number 35 on his shorts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Every year we know that he heard the Gospel Message at Sports Bible Camp. \u00a0And every year we encouraged Nicodem (and all the players) to trust in Jesus Christ as his Savior.\u00a0 Sadly, we don\u2019t know if he did or not.\u00a0 This last year Nicodem received the Most Valuable Player trophy.\u00a0 We hope that isn\u2019t all he received.\u00a0 We hope he also received the free gift of eternal life.<\/p>\n

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Nicodem receiving the Most Valuable Player trophy in 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nicodem’s family places his MVP trophy on his coffin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Please pray for Nicodem\u2019s family.\u00a0 His younger sister was in Sports Bible Camp this year and we hope that she has already believed in Jesus.\u00a0 However, there has been no witness, as far as we know, to their parents.\u00a0 Please pray that God uses this sad situation to open their hearts and ears to hear and receive the Gospel message.\u00a0 We hear that Nicodem’s parents are full of questions and are asking:\u00a0 “Why do the good ones die?”\u00a0 Hopefully, their questions will build a desire for them to hear the Good News and believe in Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently someone from the States said to us, \u201cI\u2019m tired of funerals\u201d.\u00a0 That is exactly how we feel.\u00a0 On July 5th, Nicodem Elis died at the age of 16.\u00a0 Who is Nicodem?\u00a0 Well, we can\u2019t tell you much about him.\u00a0 He lived on the other side of the village and we only saw him one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":2139,"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],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}