{"id":1227,"date":"2014-03-10T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/wp\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:37:46","slug":"acts-chapter-twentytwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Acts Chapter Twentytwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking at Paul\u2019s speech in chapter 22 which happens right after he is captured.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your testimony?\u00a0 If someone were to ask you today to give your testimony concerning the Lord and your salvation what would you say?\u00a0 This is what Paul does here.\u00a0 Paul gives his personal testimony of how he came to Christ.\u00a0 Paul starts with how he was a Jew, he was highly educated in the law and very zealous to destroy anyone who believed in this Jesus.\u00a0 But then Paul literally saw the light, our testimony would be figurative.\u00a0 But none the less all of us must realize who we are without Christ and who Christ is.\u00a0 Without a testimony of conversion how do you know you were converted?\u00a0 Read Paul\u2019s testimony a couple of times and write out a simple testimony of how you came to Christ.\u00a0 Even if you were raised in Church, you should know when you realized you needed salvation.\u00a0 Maybe even share your testimony with someone.<\/p>\n<p>When Paul\u2019s testimony mentioned he was to be a missionary to the Gentiles, the mob raised their voices and shut him down.\u00a0 Are there people in the world you think are beyond salvation?\u00a0 God calls everyone to repent and to come into the saving knowledge of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}