{"id":206,"date":"2012-06-29T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=206"},"modified":"2012-06-29T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T01:24:09","slug":"stay-tight-with-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2012\/06\/29\/stay-tight-with-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay tight with Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/06\/Da-Jesus-Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2012\/06\/Da-Jesus-Book.jpg\" alt=\"Da Jesus Book - the New Testament in Hawaii Pidgin\" width=\"168\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>I just bought another New Testament.\u00a0 The interesting thing about this one is that it&#8217;s in Hawaii Pidgin, so while it&#8217;s semi-readable to English speakers, it&#8217;s not written how I would normally talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I went to the beginning of Ephesians, one of my favorite books of the Bible.\u00a0 Ephesians 1:1 in Hawaii Pidgin says, &#8220;Aloha!\u00a0 Dis letter from me, Paul.\u00a0 You know Jesus Christ, da Spesho Guy\u00a0God Wen Send.\u00a0 Jesus wen send me all ova fo tell peopo bout him, cuz dass wat God like me fo do.\u00a0 Dis letta fo you guys dat stay Efesus side.\u00a0 You guys da peopo dat stay spesho fo God.\u00a0 Peopo trus you guys, cuz you guys stay tight wit Jesus Christ.&#8221;\u00a0 (If you can&#8217;t understand it, try reading it out loud.\u00a0 If that doesn&#8217;t work, try having a friend read it out loud to you and see if that works any better.)<\/p>\n<p>I really like that last line, about the people in Ephesus staying tight with Jesus.\u00a0 In the NIV it&#8217;s translated as being &#8220;faithful in Christ Jesus.&#8221;\u00a0 But having people trust you because you stay tight with Jesus is a really neat picture that really says the same thing.\u00a0 May that be able to be said of all of us &#8211; we are the ones who can be trusted because we stay tight with Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought another New Testament.\u00a0 The interesting thing about this one is that it&#8217;s in Hawaii Pidgin, so while it&#8217;s semi-readable to English speakers, it&#8217;s not written how I would normally talk.\u00a0 I went to the beginning of Ephesians, one of my favorite books of the Bible.\u00a0 Ephesians 1:1 in Hawaii Pidgin says, &#8220;Aloha!\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}