{"id":8976,"date":"2025-04-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:46:10","slug":"service-out-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8976","title":{"rendered":"Service…Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaking of putting the word into practice<\/a>, my friend Aaron Dorman, pastor of The Christian Church of Estes Park<\/a>, is teaching his folks to do precisely that. He told me during a recent visit that they are logging community service hours: 6,000 hours two years ago, 7,500 hours last year, and he\u2019s shooting for over 10,000. (This is a church of fewer than 200 members.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our conversation reminded me of what I read recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he said, \u201cWith what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.\u201d (Mark 4.30 \u2013 32, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.\u201d The Kingdom grows, and is beneficial. The Kingdom is not just a conclave for the faithful; it should spread and benefit society. I recommended to him (and to you) Church of Irresistible Influence<\/a> by Robert Lewis. I\u2019ve heard Robert say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus said, \u201cLet your light so shine\u2026that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\u201d He said, \u201cSee your good works<\/strong>,\u201d NOT \u201cHear your good words<\/strong>!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS You can access an AI-generated summary of the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing. (Ezekiel 47.12, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22.2, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of putting the word into practice, my friend Aaron Dorman, pastor of The Christian Church of Estes Park, is teaching his folks to do precisely that. He told me during a recent visit that they are logging community service hours: 6,000 hours two years ago, 7,500 hours last year, and he\u2019s shooting for over 10,000. (This … Continue reading Service…Out There<\/span> →<\/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-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2kM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","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=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8977,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}