{"id":12158,"date":"2007-09-07T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2019-10-06T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:01:57","slug":"one-of-the-people-you-have-counseled-on-the-phone-contacted-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/one-of-the-people-you-have-counseled-on-the-phone-contacted-me\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the people you have counseled on the phone contacted me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Greetings!\u00a0 Loved your web site: very, very impressive. One of the people you have counseled on the phone contacted me. He wanted help with a quadriplegic. After a long conversation, he told me he had spoken with you many times and that you had told him about our congregation.<\/p>\n<p>I invited him to come to our men&#8217;s study this Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>I love you as my brother and have not even met you yet.\u00a0 Thanks for planting the seed, I will water, let&#8217;s pray that God gives the increase.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you so much for letting me know! I&#8217;m glad he has made another step in the right direction. He has a number of struggles to deal with, but I know he has a strong desire to serve God. I know this because the first time we talked, I severely chastised him for two hours for the things he was doing. I told my wife afterward that it could go either way. I prayed I opened his eyes to the danger he was in, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he never talked to me again. But he did, several times. I hope you can lead him further into the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Greetings!\u00a0 Loved your web site: very, very impressive. One of the people you have counseled on the phone contacted me. He wanted help with a quadriplegic. After a long conversation, he told me he had spoken with you many times and that you had told him about our congregation. 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