{"id":2860,"date":"2020-12-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:44:21","slug":"everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2860","title":{"rendered":"Everybody!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we wrap up our advent meditations, it\u2019s useful to remind ourselves that the Christmas story teaches us that God uses everybody! Here\u2019s a partial list of players:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gabriel<\/li><li>Zechariah and Elizabeth<\/li><li>Mary<\/li><li>Joseph<\/li><li>Shepherds<\/li><li>Simeon<\/li><li>Anna<\/li><li>Wise men<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look who is represented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Angels<\/li><li>Old people<\/li><li>Young people<\/li><li>Men<\/li><li>Women<\/li><li>Working-class people<\/li><li>Poor people<\/li><li>Wealthy people<\/li><li>People of differing ethnicities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s part of the good news. Jesus came for everyone AND everyone can participate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And the angel said to them, \u201cFear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be <strong>for all the people<\/strong>. (Luke 2.10, ESV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were <strong>all <\/strong>together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and <strong>rested on each one of them<\/strong>. And they were <strong>all <\/strong>filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2.1 &#8211; 4, ESV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wrap up our advent meditations, it\u2019s useful to remind ourselves that the Christmas story teaches us that God uses everybody! Here\u2019s a partial list of players: Gabriel Zechariah and Elizabeth Mary Joseph Shepherds Simeon Anna Wise men Look who is represented: Angels Old people Young people Men Women Working-class people Poor people Wealthy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everybody!<\/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-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-K8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}