{"id":3164,"date":"2019-10-24T05:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2019-10-23T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T02:46:39","slug":"save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"save"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image001\"<\/a>Around 5:30 Saturday morning Susan and I drove through downtown Atlanta to join other friends in welcoming Pastor Manuel, Paula, Marco, and Mayra to our city. Shining clearly in the darkness was a neon sign attached to the steeple of a church with the words: JESUS SAVES.<\/p>\n

Marco and Mayra have visited before, but this is the first time Pastor Manuel and Paula have been on a plane and the first time they have left their country. After a joyful reunion, Rick and Melaney Cost took the tired foursome to their house and we looked forward to Sunday fellowship with several from Atlanta who have visited their home in Ecuador.<\/p>\n

\"img_1423\"<\/a>Jesus always kept two things in mind: why He did not<\/em> come to earth\u2026 and why He did<\/em> come to earth. \u201cFor God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.\u201d (John 3:17) Jesus knew we were all lost sheep who had gone astray. Sin had entangled us all\u2026 and Jesus came to save us.<\/p>\n

The woman caught in adultery was being condemned by religious zealots who dragged her before Jesus. But even these teachers of the law and Pharisees knew deep down they had no right to throw a stone. After they walked away, Jesus asked: \u201cWoman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?\u201d \u201cNo one, Sir,\u201d she said. \u201cThen neither do I condemn you,\u201d Jesus declared. \u201cGo now and leave your life of sin.\u201d (See John 8:1-11)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.\u201d (Luke 19: 10) Pastor Manuel is a messenger of this good news in the villages of the Andes Mountains, where he and Paula grew up. After riding a bus up the narrow road to such a village one school trip and realizing that Pastor Manuel usually walked the long path, possessing no car of his own, one of our teenagers asked: \u201cWhat is so important that you walk two hours up a mountain to visit people you don\u2019t even know? Do you bring them something?\u201d \u201cI bring them Jesus,\u201d our friend quietly replied.<\/p>\n

Jesus heard criticism from the \u2018righteous\u2019 and made a simple observation: \u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.\u201d The obvious truth is we are all sick\u2026 we have all been lost\u2026 \u201cThere is no one righteous, not even one\u2026\u201d (see Romans 3:9-18) Praise God that Jesus saves! Praise God that we have a Great Physician! Praise God that He offers the gift of righteousness! Let\u2019s spread the Word\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cFor I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d Matthew 9:13<\/p>\n

\u201cSalvation is found in no One else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.\u201d Acts 4:12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 5:30 Saturday morning Susan and I drove through downtown Atlanta to join other friends in welcoming Pastor Manuel, Paula, Marco, and Mayra to our city. Shining clearly in the darkness was a neon sign attached to the steeple of a church with the words: JESUS SAVES. Marco and Mayra have visited before, but this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","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=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}