{"id":3872,"date":"2023-06-05T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2023-10-30T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:46:30","slug":"honduras-2023-there-is-still-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"Honduras 2023 — There is Still Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There Is Still Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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I must include one more highlight from our spring-break trip to Honduras, because it furnished our mission statement and direction for the entire trip, “There is still room” — at the King’s table. This is how we came to hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor Dario, learning that Tim and Lindsay had lived in China for six years, invited him to speak to the church saying, \u201cBrother Tim, tell us about China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim read a passage of Scripture from Luke 14 about people who were invited to a fabulous banquet by a wealthy master, but many made excuses and didn\u2019t come. The master told his servants to go out into the highways and byways and invite the lame, poor, and anyone who would come. The servants did so, and reported this to the master and that: \u201cThere is still room.\u201d(v22) The master sent his servants out again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cThe servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, \u2018Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.\u2019\u2018’Sir,\u2019 the servant said, \u2018what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.\u2019\u00a0\u201cThen the master told his servant, \u2018Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.\u00a0I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet\u2019\u201d<\/em> (Luke 14: 21:23 NIV).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tim chose to tell the Honduran church about how the underground church in China had ignored and not evangelized the Tibetan people because they were \u201cidol worshipers\u201d and chose willingly to ignore God and go their own way. Tim mentioned also that a very, very small percentage of Tibetans had ever heard the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was a major earthquake in Tibet a few years later, and the Chinese church decided to send humanitarian and spiritual help. They were well received and many came to Christ. The Chinese church repented for exclusivity and admitted their failure in going to Tibet with the Gospel, as commanded in the Great Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After hearing the story, Pastor Dario said to Tim, our team, and his own church, that this was a word for the Honduras church. He went on to say, \u201cEveryone in Honduras has heard the name of Jesus and the Gospel message.\u201d But the Honduran church has been like the underground Chinese church and judged that the people who haven\u2019t responded to the Gospel or accepted Jesus were doing so because that was their choice. Therefore the church wasn\u2019t going out into the highways and byways any longer like they had a one time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow we\u2019re hearing, \u2018There\u2019s still room,\u2019 and we\u2019re failing at going out again. This is a good word for us, and one we need to hear.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is still room\u201d seemed to become the main theme or word from the Lord for our team concerning our time in Honduras, and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There Is Still Room I must include one more highlight from our spring-break trip to Honduras, because it furnished our mission statement and direction for the entire trip, “There is still room” — at the King’s table. This is how we came to hear it. Pastor Dario, learning that Tim and Lindsay had lived in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,9,12,14,11],"tags":[32,212,33,98,21,209],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendoftheking","category-be-a-leader","category-be-a-man","category-bread-for-the-spirit","category-travel-spiritual-growth","category-understanding-our-times","tag-christian-life","tag-discipleship","tag-faith","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}