{"id":215,"date":"2011-07-08T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:02","slug":"witnessing-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 5:1-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;Jesus Suffered Him Not.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The man may have been afraid of the return of the demons.<br \/>\n2. He may have been ashamed to face his friends.<br \/>\n3. He may have thought he could be a better disciple away from the people that knew him so well .<br \/>\n4. Or he may have thought it necessary to leave home to do a great work for the Lord.<br \/>\n5. Jesus stayed where he was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;Go Home to thy Friends.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The best place to start is at home.<br \/>\na. With your own family.<br \/>\nb. With your neighbor.<br \/>\nc. With those you associate with.<br \/>\nd. With those you work with.<br \/>\n2. One will never overcome the world when he can&#8217;t live victorious at home.<br \/>\n3. You will never be successful abroad when your own family doubts your salvation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: What did He have to Tell and Why Tell It?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He had many things to be thankful for.<br \/>\n2. He may not be able to argue with the learned but he could tell of his personal contact with Jesus.<br \/>\n3. What kind of person would he have been if he had refused to tell his friends about Jesus?<br \/>\n4. He was permitted to work where Jesus was not wanted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Jesus Wants Every Christian to Witness.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. If you have experienced salvation you ought to become a witness.<br \/>\n2. God will hold you responsible for the folks at home.<br \/>\n3. Only an ingrate would keep his candle under a basket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 5:1-20 I: &#8220;Jesus Suffered Him Not.&#8221; 1. The man may have been afraid of the return of the demons. 2. He may have been ashamed to face his friends. 3. He may have thought he could be a better disciple away from the people that knew him so well . 4. Or he may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}