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\u201c\u2026<\/b>On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered\u00a0throughout Judea and Samaria.\u201d Acts 8:1<\/b><\/p>\n
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\u201cThose who had been scattered\u00a0preached the word wherever they went.\u201d Acts 8:4<\/b><\/p>\n
Breakups are often painful, and it\u2019s often assumed that we must do all we can to avoid them\u2014especially in the church. Because the Lord hates discord and strife, we should pursue unity by the Spirit. But some<\/i> separations are divinely orchestrated. God allowed the persecution of the early church because that scattering advanced the Great Commission\u2014which is still ongoing today. Each of us must be willing to go where God leads in order to fulfill His kingdom purpose for our lives.<\/p>\n
Dear Lord, Help us to follow where you lead, even when the move is painful. We\u2019re members of one body wherever we\u2019re placed, and we must learn to see ourselves that way. It\u2019s only by walking in obedience to the Spirit that we help to fulfill your will on earth. <\/i><\/p>\n
For further study:
Matthew 28:19
Acts 11:19-20; 13:2-3; 20:37-38; 22:21
1 Peter 1:1
Galatians 2:8-9<\/p>\n
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\u201c\u2026On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered\u00a0throughout Judea and Samaria.\u201d Acts 8:1 \u201cThose who had been scattered\u00a0preached the word wherever they went.\u201d Acts 8:4 Breakups are often painful, and it\u2019s often assumed that we must do all we can to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t
\u201c\u2026<\/b>On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered\u00a0throughout Judea and Samaria.\u201d Acts 8:1<\/b><\/p>
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\u201cThose who had been scattered\u00a0preached the word wherever they went.\u201d Acts 8:4<\/b><\/p>
Breakups are often painful, and it\u2019s often assumed that we must do all we can to avoid them\u2014especially in the church. Because the Lord hates discord and strife, we should pursue unity by the Spirit. But some<\/i> separations are divinely orchestrated. God allowed the persecution of the early church because that scattering advanced the Great Commission\u2014which is still ongoing today. Each of us must be willing to go where God leads in order to fulfill His kingdom purpose for our lives.\u00a0<\/p>
Dear Lord, Help us to follow where you lead, even when the move is painful. We\u2019re members of one body wherever we\u2019re placed, and we must learn to see ourselves that way. It\u2019s only by walking in obedience to the Spirit that we help to fulfill your will on earth. <\/i><\/p>
For further study:\u00a0
Matthew 28:19
Acts 11:19-20; 13:2-3; 20:37-38; 22:21
1 Peter 1:1
Galatians 2:8-9<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afterbirth","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahjeankelly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}