{"id":743,"date":"2012-07-21T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2012-07-21T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T02:54:42","slug":"be-intentional-about-sharing-your-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Be Intentional About Sharing Your Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one story you have to hear! \u00a0On June 14th I flew to New Orleans for a national LoveLoud <\/a>team meeting and to attend the Saturday block parties that NOBA churches<\/a> were conducting that weekend. \u00a0As I was getting off the plane I tweeted that “I just shared my faith with the lady next to me. \u00a0I think I will do this again today. \u00a0You can too!” \u00a0There is something about intentionality which renews and focuses your daily activity.<\/p>\n

When I went into the airport I went directly to the cafe by the Delta terminal. \u00a0They make and sell fantastic jelly stuffed beignets! I was joined by my co-worker Greg Finley.<\/p>\n

After our snack and coffee, we joined my boss down in the luggage department (opps! I had lost him after deplaning so I thought he had gone on to the shuttles for downtown, my bad!) We decided the easiest and cheapest way to get downtown would be to ride a cab together. \u00a0I rode in the front seat with our cabbie Melba while Greg and Al rode in the back seat.<\/p>\n

As soon as we got in the cab we began a friendly discussion with Melba about why we were in town and how important it is to know God. \u00a0She was very inquisitive about the personal-ness of our faith. \u00a0Her son had just begun to attend the ‘Celebration’ church<\/a> which was located along our route. \u00a0During the trip Al, Greg, and I all shared our faith journey and how we trusted in Christ. \u00a0We were able to clearly articulate the steps one needs to understand in order to believe. \u00a0As I stood to step out of the cab, I asked Melba what she would do about Jesus and she told me to sit back down in the car where she prayed to repent and receive Christ.<\/p>\n

There is no way we could have calculated our steps so that we would be in Melba’s cab yet the Lord perfectly arranged this meeting.\u00a0I can say that I was not shocked that this happened but am truly impressed how the Lord works. \u00a0Too often I go about my day without anticipating that I will be encountering someone with the gospel. \u00a0On those days, I don’t usually encounter an opportunity to lead someone to Christ. \u00a0However, it seems that on the days I ready myself to share the Gospel<\/a>, the door for that opens. \u00a0This is the point of this blog article, be intentional about sharing your faith and the Lord will make the connections happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one story you have to hear! \u00a0On June 14th I flew to New Orleans for a national LoveLoud team meeting and to attend the Saturday block parties that NOBA churches were conducting that weekend. \u00a0As I was getting off the plane I tweeted that “I just shared my faith with the lady next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[63,65,64],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}