{"id":2822,"date":"2014-01-15T00:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T23:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2014-01-15T00:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T23:54:25","slug":"the-net-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2014\/01\/the-net-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes; <em>\u2018Due to circumstances beyond our control&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A really good night at <strong>&#8216;The Net&#8217; <\/strong>(outreach to men) despite a rearranged programme. Due to a family bereavement our planned lecturer\/speaker for the evening understandably had to pull out of tonight&#8217;s event. This meant spending a few hours today putting together an alternative programme. Panic over!<br \/>\nNot really! When I checked with our usual venue about how we wanted the room arranged, I discovered that they were not expecting us and had hired out the room to someone else!<\/p>\n<href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-often-go-awry-e1336407162622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-often-go-awry-e1336407162622-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"The-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-often-go-awry-e1336407162622\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-often-go-awry-e1336407162622-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-often-go-awry-e1336407162622.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new venue found (thanks West End Chapel).<br \/>\n The activity could go ahead and despite my frantic day, it was a great privilege at the end of the day to share the gospel with a bunch of men.<\/p>\n<p>The original theme for the evening was going to be a lecture on <strong>\u2018The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress\u2019<\/strong>, which is the world\u2019s best selling book after the Bible. I was able to sharing some facts and trivia concerning this unique and remarkable book, this then provided a natural platform for me to bring a gospel message and challenge to the non-Christian men who came along.<\/p>\n<p> The end result of a rearranged day \u2013 Good seed sown, please water it with your prayers and let the Holy Spirit do his work (John 16:8 &#8211; <em>&#8220;He&#8230; will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> Final thought:<\/strong> With God there are no accidents only appointments! Everything has a purpose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the saying goes; \u2018Due to circumstances beyond our control&#8230;&#8221; A really good night at &#8216;The Net&#8217; (outreach to men) despite a rearranged programme. Due to a family bereavement our planned lecturer\/speaker for the evening understandably had to pull out of tonight&#8217;s event. This meant spending a few hours today putting together an alternative programme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}