{"id":11378,"date":"2012-05-28T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2012-05-28T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T03:24:10","slug":"africa-bible-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/05\/28\/africa-bible-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Bible Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2012\/05\/SPCKA-for-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11380\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2012\/05\/SPCKA-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2012\/05\/SPCKA-for-blog.jpg 613w, http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2012\/05\/SPCKA-for-blog-300x136.jpg 300w, http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2012\/05\/SPCKA-for-blog-500x227.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"650\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>I am President of SPCK Australia and this literature mission encourages Christian ministry around the world. A recent example:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weapons of war <\/strong>\u2018For over twenty years I have preached using the Bible alone. But now, thanks to SPCKA, this useful book will help me grow in Bible knowledge and make disciples of Christ.\u2019Pastor John Karuu received his Swahili edition of the Africa Bible Commentary during our graduation ceremony with tears of joy. \u2018This gift fulfils my long-time dream. It is my weapon of war.\u2019Such books are not accessible to pastors, especially in this isolated part of Kenya. The provision of this valuable reference is considered a miracle by our graduates and will transform their ministries.Lack of good Christian literature is becoming a great hindrance to church growth and evangelism. We are deeply thankful to SPCKA and those behind this donation of fifty commentaries and pray they will continue to support us in this way as the need for books is great in this place.<\/p>\n<p>In His exciting service Peter N. Ibui Principal Word of Life Bible Training Centre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more stories from\u00a0our partners in difficult places\u00a0in our <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?TheSocietyforPromoti\/9320d90818\/26f13ae3aa\/c77944103a\">Autumn 2012 Newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am President of SPCK Australia and this literature mission encourages Christian ministry around the world. A recent example: Weapons of war \u2018For over twenty years I have preached using the Bible alone. But now, thanks to SPCKA, this useful &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/05\/28\/africa-bible-commentary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11463,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions\/11463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}