{"id":62797,"date":"2011-04-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=62797"},"modified":"2023-09-15T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T02:02:41","slug":"the-purpose-of-our-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-purpose-of-our-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Our Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2011Spring3ThePurposeOfOurCalling.mp3\" \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-62797-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2011Spring3ThePurposeOfOurCalling.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2011Spring3ThePurposeOfOurCalling.mp3\">https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2011Spring3ThePurposeOfOurCalling.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\t<p>by Taylor Ladd<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/influence-and-evangelism\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInfluence and Evangelism\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Taylor Ladd Influence and Evangelism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[119],"tags":[960,536,451],"class_list":["post-62797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","tag-calling","tag-preaching","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64039,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/four-callings\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":0},"title":"Four Callings","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Reggie Finch","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":62781,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/influence-and-evangelism\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":1},"title":"Influence and Evangelism","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Taylor Ladd April 17-20, 2011 God's Captivated Captives Learning to See Souls The Purpose of Our Calling Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind Tactics for Defending Our Faith","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/teachingMoments-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8008,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/calling-on-the-name-of-the-lord\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":2},"title":"Calling on the Name of the Lord (Hamilton)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Acts 2:14-21 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most linguist will tell you that one difficulty in translating between two languages is dealing with idioms \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An idiom is a phrase that doesn\u2019t mean what is literally said, but native speakers understand them without much thought \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Examples from English are\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29411,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drinking-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":3},"title":"Drinking in the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Old Testament Sermon with Audio: Drinking in the Old Testament Article: Old Testament Beverages New Testament Sermon with audio: Drinking in the New Testament Article: New Testament Beverages","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/scan0013_tif-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10558,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-calling\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":4},"title":"Notes on Calling","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"God's Calling of Men John 6:44-45 Romans 1:6 Romans 8:30 Romans 9:24 I Corinthians 1:26 Ephesians 1:18 Ephesians 4:1-4 Philippians 3:14 I Thessalonians 2:12 II Thessalonians 2:14 Hebrews 9:15 I Peter 2:9 I Peter 5:10 II Peter 1:10 Calling on the Name of the Lord \"In the name of ...\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Notes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Notes","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/notes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":83182,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/a-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":62797,"position":5},"title":"A Challenge","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Wafel Download Audio","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}