{"id":729,"date":"2021-08-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/?p=729"},"modified":"2021-08-14T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T16:39:30","slug":"sermon20210808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210808\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTion 2021: The Reason for Testifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span hidden=\"\">ACTion 2021: The Reason for Testifying<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sermonNotes2020\">\n<div class=\"sermonInfoTitle\">2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission<br \/>\nScripture: Acts 26:6, 12-18; John 19:35 (NIV)<br \/>\nSpeaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fV39SVy0fmk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio-container\"><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/mp3\/English\/2021_0808_E.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/div>\n<p><u><strong>Acts 26:6, 12-18<\/strong><\/u> (NIV)<br \/>\n6And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today.<br \/>\n12\u201cOn one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 13About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. 14We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, \u2018Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.\u2019<br \/>\n15\u201cThen I asked, \u2018Who are you, Lord?\u2019<br \/>\n\u201c \u2018I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,\u2019 the Lord replied. 16\u2018Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them18to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>John 19:35<\/strong><\/u> (NIV)<br \/>\n35The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTion 2021: The Reason for Testifying 2021 Church Theme: One Heart, One Mission Scripture: Acts 26:6, 12-18; John 19:35 (NIV) Speaker: Mr. Aaron Garcia Acts 26:6, 12-18 (NIV) 6And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today. 12\u201cOn one of these journeys I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/sermon20210808\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACTion 2021: The Reason for Testifying&#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":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-sermon","category-mr-aaron-garcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgc.ca\/YM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}