{"id":55,"date":"2009-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-03T06:42:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T10:42:04","slug":"unless-the-lord-builds-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2009\/05\/03\/unless-the-lord-builds-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Unless the Lord Builds the House&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2009\/05\/1242_56324.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2009\/05\/1242_56324.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen and Joseph working on Bible lessons\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Stephen and Manfred continue to be hard at work in revising our Agutaynen Bible Lessons for the beginning of Phase One Chronological teaching in June. All of the Old Testament lessons&nbsp;have been completed, and work on the New Testament lessons is now beginning.&nbsp;Their language helper, Joseph, has been very faithful and helpful in revising the lessons. Of course, we desire the lessons to be clear and accurate to all who will hear.&nbsp;Also on our hearts right now is that the Word of God will penetrate Joseph&rsquo;s heart, not just his head, while he is working with the men. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the building of a meeting structure is well underway. After much prayer and talking as a team, <!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2009\/05\/1242_56325.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2009\/05\/1242_56325.jpg\" alt=\"Elisade working on meeting structure\" width=\"150\" title=\"Elisade working on meeting structure\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail--> we decided on a building size that would accommodate about 150 people. We didn&rsquo;t want it to be too small, yet at the same time, as it is taking shape, it seems quite large! We pray that the Lord will bring those to the teaching that He would have there, and He would fill it with those whose hearts He has prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What good does a building do if nobody comes to hear the teaching?  Please pray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}