{"id":900,"date":"2009-04-25T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2009-04-25T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T17:51:26","slug":"the-sacrifice-sacrament-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/the-sacrifice-sacrament-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacrifice (sacrament?) of Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Most of us grossly underestimate the effect we could have <\/strong>on people\u2019s eternities if we would take the time to schedule breakfast or lunch with lost people in our sphere of influence.  If we\u2019d just make an appointment, and then take a risk in the conversation by clearly expressing the essence of what it means to know Christ personally, heaven only knows what might happen<\/em>. ~Bill Hybels in <em>Becoming a Contagious Christian<\/em>, chapter Six: The Strength of Sacrifice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us grossly underestimate the effect we could have on people\u2019s eternities if we would take the time to schedule breakfast or lunch with lost people in our sphere of influence. If we\u2019d just make an appointment, and then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/the-sacrifice-sacrament-of-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214,353,364],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-faith","tag-gospel","tag-sharing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}