{"id":45911,"date":"2022-10-01T02:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-are-we-passionate-about-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:05:42","slug":"what-are-we-passionate-about-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-are-we-passionate-about-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Passionate About? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apostle Pauls passion in life was largely driven by concern for the eternal destiny of others. In 2 Corinthians 5, he names three things that fueled this passion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He recognized that he was accountable to Christ for his service and thus desired to give a good accounting at the judgment seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:9-10).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul was driven by the Christ&#8217;s love for him and a desire that others would know that same love (2 Corinthians 5:14).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, he understood that a lost and dying world needs a Savior (2 Corinthians 5:17-21; cf. John 3:17; 1 John 4:14).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are we passionate about? Pauls passion for people was fueled by the love of Christ  and ours should be as well. As a challenge to reaching our God-given goals, Mark Twain once stated: Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be willing to &#8220;sail away from the safe harbor&#8221; and passionately share our love of Christ with someone today! (cf. Acts 8:4-5; Acts 8:26-35; Acts 18:24-28).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do We Have A Burning Passion To Share The Good News?<\/li>\n<li>Reclaiming Our Spiritual Passion<\/li>\n<li>Our World Is Watching<\/li>\n<li>Sacrificing All &#8220;So Others May Live&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Some Causes Of Spiritual Boredom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apostle Pauls passion in life was largely driven by concern for the eternal destiny of others. In 2 Corinthians 5, he names three things that fueled this passion: He recognized that he was accountable to Christ for his service and thus desired to give a good accounting at the judgment seat of Christ (2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-are-we-passionate-about-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Are We Passionate About? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}