{"id":5643,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/cabby-witness\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:13","slug":"cabby-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/cabby-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"CABBY\n  WITNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Consideration; Evangelism; Gospel; Testimony<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Matthew 10:7\u20138; Colossians 4:3\u20136<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>While in seminary I discovered that a Promise Keepers convention was coming to Soldier Field in Chicago. A group of us took a commuter train downtown and then caught a cab to the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We were running late but still hoped to get good seats. I\u2019m sure our driver, a man who spoke little English, felt intimidated as the six of us piled into his taxi, jabbering loudly. Traffic was heavy and got worse near the stadium. We slowed to a crawl. We weren\u2019t going to get those good seats after all.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Some of us started talking about running the rest of the way to the stadium. Michael argued against that. He was concerned about the cabby; if we got out at that point, the driver would be stuck in traffic without being able to refill his taxi. He\u2019d be losing money.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Michael then talked to the cabby about the conference we were going to, and he shared the Good News of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I don\u2019t know if the man was affected by the message, but I do know Michael\u2019s concern provided a base of credibility for sharing the gospel that the rest of us had overlooked.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Greg Huffer, Lebanon, Indiana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Consideration; Evangelism; Gospel; Testimony References: Matthew 10:7\u20138; Colossians 4:3\u20136 While in seminary I discovered that a Promise Keepers convention was coming to Soldier Field in Chicago. A group of us took a commuter train downtown and then caught a cab to the stadium. We were running late but still hoped to get good seats. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/cabby-witness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CABBY<br \/>\n  WITNESS&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}