{"id":9991,"date":"2022-06-22T07:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:30:04","slug":"reaching-out-through-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/?p=9991","title":{"rendered":"Reaching out- through \u2018blessing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FIVE WAYS TO BLESS YOUR NEIGHBOURS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dave Ferguson shares five ways to bless your neighbors.\u00a0He says, \u201cFrom the very beginning, God\u2019s way of reaching\u00a0<\/span>and restoring the world has always been through what I\u00a0<\/span>would call a blessing strategy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How do we in a very practical way, that\u2019s theologically\u00a0grounded, explain to people how they could bless people in\u00a0<\/span>places they are incarnating?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He came up with this…
\nB\u00a0<\/strong>– Begin with prayer. We want you to ask, \u2018God how\u00a0<\/span>do you want me to bless the people in the places\u00a0<\/span>you\u2019ve sent me to?\u2019
\n<\/span>L<\/strong> – Listen. Don\u2019t talk, but listen to people, their\u00a0<\/span>struggles, their pains, in the places God sent you.
\n<\/span>E\u00a0<\/strong>– Eat. You can\u2019t just check this off. It\u2019s not quick. You\u00a0<\/span>have to have a meal with people or a cup of coffee. It\u00a0<\/span>builds relationships.
\n<\/span>S<\/strong> – Serve. If you listen with people and you eat with\u00a0<\/span>people they will tell you how to love them and you\u2019ll\u00a0<\/span>know how to serve them.
\n<\/span>S<\/strong> – Story. When the time is right, now we talk and we\u00a0<\/span>share the story of how Jesus changed our life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Genesis 12:2-3<\/a> says, \u201cI will make you into a great nation,\u00a0and I will bless you; \u00a0I will make your name great, and you\u00a0<\/span>will be a blessing. \u00a0I will bless those who bless you, and\u00a0<\/span>whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth<\/span>will be blessed through you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIVE WAYS TO BLESS YOUR NEIGHBOURS Dave Ferguson shares five ways to bless your neighbors.\u00a0He says, \u201cFrom the very beginning, God\u2019s way of reaching\u00a0and restoring the world has always been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,59,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessing","category-food","category-relationships","category-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cassowary.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}