{"id":6244,"date":"2016-08-16T03:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/step-by-step-freedom\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:49:27","slug":"step-by-step-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/step-by-step-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"STEP-BY-STEP\n  FREEDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Leadership; Preparation; Racism; Seasons<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> Romans 5:3<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Rosa Parks\u2019s decision not to ride in the \u201cblacks only\u201d section of the bus in 1955 was anything but impulsive. Rather, the woman whose action ignited the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming a key victory in the civil rights movement, had been working for the emancipation of blacks for many years.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Parks had spent the previous twelve years helping lead the local NAACP chapter. The summer before, she had attended a ten-day training session in Tennessee at a labor and civil rights organizing school. For some time she had been studying other bus boycotts, and she had already been arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two years earlier for participating in one.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>So when she boarded that bus in Montgomery and sat where blacks weren\u2019t allowed, she was armed, chapter and verse, for what would follow.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014\u201cChange Happens Slowly,\u201d <i>Utne Reader<\/i> (July\u2013August 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Leadership; Preparation; Racism; Seasons Reference: Romans 5:3 Rosa Parks\u2019s decision not to ride in the \u201cblacks only\u201d section of the bus in 1955 was anything but impulsive. Rather, the woman whose action ignited the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming a key victory in the civil rights movement, had been working for the emancipation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/step-by-step-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STEP-BY-STEP<br \/>\n  FREEDOM&#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-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","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=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}