{"id":198,"date":"2010-08-29T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-08-29T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T15:02:12","slug":"first-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/first-service\/","title":{"rendered":"First service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was our third Sunday in EPEG (Eglise Protestante Evangelique de Guingamp), and my first opportunity to lead a service and preach. In the middle of the week, the church in Lannion asked if Emmanuel Hartiel could help for that Sunday. Since I was available, we agreed that he would go, and that I would lead the service here.<\/p>\n<p>It went well, thank to your prayers. We had a few visitors. One of them was one of the pastors of the Gypsy church. A very interesting man, who obviously fear the Lord. I am looking forward to meet him again, and speak about the work of the Lord amongst Gypsies in France. An other visitor was our neighbour&#8217;s son, who usually goes to Lannion, and finally, a young woman from Paris who is visiting some family in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I preached on Psalm 1. The subject was: true happiness is not found in conformity to the world, but in conformity to the Word of God. Here is a brief outline:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Le secret de l&#8217;homme heureux\/b\u00c3\u00a9nis (the blessed man&#8217;s secret).<\/li>\n<li>Les b\u00c3\u00a9n\u00c3\u00a9dictions du juste (the blessings of the righteouss.<\/li>\n<li>Le sort des m\u00c3\u00a9chants (the end of the wicked)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Next preaching opportunity is next week, and I hope to preach on Psalm 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was our third Sunday in EPEG (Eglise Protestante Evangelique de Guingamp), and my first opportunity to lead a service and preach. In the middle of the week, the church in Lannion asked if Emmanuel Hartiel could help for that Sunday. Since I was available, we agreed that he would go, and that I would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/first-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}