{"id":1636,"date":"2024-02-18T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2024-02-13T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T09:57:57","slug":"sermon20240218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240218\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Purposes of the Church: \u00a0\u00a0(4) Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sermonNotes2024\">\n<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church<br \/>\nScripture: Colossians 1:3-8 (ESV)<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Pastor Aaron Garcia<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2024_0218_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><\/audio><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Colossians 1:3-8 (ESV) <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Col-1-3\"><sup class=\"versenum\">3 <\/sup>We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29453\" class=\"text Col-1-4\"><sup class=\"versenum\">4\u00a0<\/sup>since we heard of\u00a0your faith in Christ Jesus and of\u00a0the love that you have for all the saints,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29454\" class=\"text Col-1-5\"><sup class=\"versenum\">5\u00a0<\/sup>because of\u00a0the hope\u00a0laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in\u00a0the word of the truth, the gospel,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29455\" class=\"text Col-1-6\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>which has come to you, as indeed\u00a0in the whole world it is\u00a0bearing fruit and increasing\u2014as it also does among you, since the day you\u00a0heard it and understood\u00a0the grace of God in truth,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29456\" class=\"text Col-1-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup>just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. \u00a0He is a faithful minister of Christ on your\u00a0behalf<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-29457\" class=\"text Col-1-8\"><sup class=\"versenum\">8\u00a0<\/sup>and has made known to us your\u00a0love in the Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 Church Theme: Ready, Set, Grow: Journeying Together to Build Up the Church Scripture: Colossians 1:3-8 (ESV) Speaker: Pastor Aaron Garcia Colossians 1:3-8 (ESV) 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,\u00a04\u00a0since we heard of\u00a0your faith in Christ Jesus and of\u00a0the love that you have for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20240218\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Five Purposes of the Church: \u00a0\u00a0(4) Evangelism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-sermon","category-pastor-aaron-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}