{"id":102,"date":"2007-10-08T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/?p=102"},"modified":"2007-10-08T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:52:00","slug":"great-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Great Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Sunday&#8217;s ago I had the privilege of leading three teenage girls to the Lord. Here is the story.<\/p>\n<p>I received three communication cards that said they wanted to be baptized and then underneath that, they hand wrote that they also wanted to be saved.<\/p>\n<p>I called the one teenager and asked a few questions. It turns out that two of them are sisters and one is a friend (age 19, 17 &#038; 16). The one I spoke to said that they all wanted to do this together, so I invited them to meet me in the prayer room the next Sunday at 10:30. <\/p>\n<p>I prayed all week that they would show up and that God would prepare the way. At 10:30 they all three showed up. They were very open to hearing the Gospel and each one wanted to be &#8220;saved&#8221;. I shared some Scriptures with them and explained what it means to be a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>They listened intently and did not have any questions. I asked them if they were ready to make the commitment to Jesus Christ and they said yes. We prayed together and I gave them each a new Bible. I also talked with them about what baptism is and how that could be a greater next step for them.  I was floating after that, there is nothing more fulfilling than leading someone to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>How exciting it is to see young people like these three girls coming to know Jesus. I am sure many seeds were planted with them along the way and I had the privilege of praying with them. That is why we are doing what we are doing!<\/p>\n<p>We are reaching people and helping them grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Every person that serves here at NewPointe played a small part in this story. Yeah God!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Sunday&#8217;s ago I had the privilege of leading three teenage girls to the Lord. Here is the story. I received three communication cards that said they wanted to be baptized and then underneath that, they hand wrote that they also wanted to be saved. I called the one teenager and asked a few questions. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-life-change","category-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}