{"id":3151,"date":"2019-10-10T05:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:10:51","slug":"introductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_9525\"<\/a>Susan and I drove to Foley, Alabama this past weekend to visit John\u2019s family and to watch him play football. This is the second year he has lived with his mom Terri, her husband Daniel, and his younger sister Leesa. We speak with him regularly and he seems to have adjusted well to small town life near the Gulf coast.<\/p>\n

Saturday we planned to take John to breakfast before we headed back to Atlanta. He asked if his friend Isaiah could join us, as he spent the night with John after the game. Of course we agreed and marveled at the appetites of two high school boys.<\/p>\n

\"img_1414\"<\/a>I smiled as John introduced me to his friend: \u201cDana was a coach\u2026 He coached Sherill Baker; she played basketball for the University of Georgia and in the WNBA. Dana is also a pastor\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan thought John might have been warning his friend to be on good behavior, but I didn\u2019t think so. Isaiah seemed like the type of companion you want your kids to have. He is on the quiet side, very respectful, and extremely kind. I think John has a fine friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have found the One the prophets spoke about\u2026 you\u2019ve got to meet Him!\u201d Introductions can be important. Andrew introduced his brother to Jesus and Philip introduced a friend. Their lives were never the same.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we can do the same\u2026 \u201cJesus has done miracles in my life. He walks with me day by day and teaches me to be like Him. He is the Answer to the chaos in this world and soon every person will acknowledge Him as King. I hope you\u2019ll get to know Him as Savior, Lord, and Friend. When you see how much He loves you\u2026 you\u2019ll want to love Him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, \u2018We have found the Messiah\u2019 (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, \u2018You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas\u2019 (which, when translated, is Peter). The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, He said to him, \u2018Follow Me.\u2019 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathaniel and told him, \u2018We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote \u2013 Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\u2019 \u2018Nazareth! Can any good come from there?\u2019 Nathaniel asked. \u2018Come and see,\u2019 said Philip.\u201d John 1:41-46<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan and I drove to Foley, Alabama this past weekend to visit John\u2019s family and to watch him play football. This is the second year he has lived with his mom Terri, her husband Daniel, and his younger sister Leesa. We speak with him regularly and he seems to have adjusted well to small town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}