{"id":1304,"date":"2019-09-26T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:21:12","slug":"finishing-well-starting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Well, starting today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have written several blogs on older people still actively following Jesus and ministering to others, in short, people who are finishing well. The stories are worth a review if you want to be inspired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=614\">Frank and Sally Dennis\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=965\">Barbara Jaboor<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=968\">Sam Hershey<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1256\">Phyllis Stanley<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1261\">Skip Gray<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend Ray Bandi (someone else who is finishing well!) asked how someone I had discipled years ago was doing. I had to say, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t finish as well as I would have wanted.&#8221; This happens, and Jesus was clear on that score:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. (Mark 4.19, NIV)<br><\/em><br>Ray responded, quoting his mentor, well-known Navigator, the late Leroy Eims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It is hard to make it over the long-haul. Someone once asked LeRoy, \u201cHow do you make it over the long-haul?\u201d\u00a0LeRoy answered, \u201cMake it over the short-haul.\u201d\u00a0It takes a lot of daily decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The writer of Hebrews was clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called \u201ctoday,\u201d that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, \u201cToday, if you hear his  voice, do not harden your hearts as in the  rebellion.\u201d (Hebrews 3.13 &#8211; 15, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Apostle Paul finished well, but not all of his men did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith&#8230;Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to  Thessalonica.<\/em> <em>(2 Timothy 4.7, 10) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written several blogs on older people still actively following Jesus and ministering to others, in short, people who are finishing well. The stories are worth a review if you want to be inspired: Frank and Sally Dennis\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara Jaboor\u00a0 Sam Hershey\u00a0 Phyllis Stanley\u00a0 Skip Gray\u00a0 My friend Ray Bandi (someone else who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finishing Well, starting today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-l2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}