{"id":481,"date":"2012-09-06T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:00:36","slug":"transcript-dangerous-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-dangerous-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: Dangerous Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dangerous_Surrender.gif\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-482\" title=\"Dangerous_Surrender\" src=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dangerous_Surrender.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>Kay Warren, the wife of Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, tells her own very personal story in\u00a0<em><strong>Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The title of her book,\u00a0<em><strong>Dangerous Surrender<\/strong><\/em>, accurately describes of her message. Surrender implies defeat, failure, capitulating, especially to our Western ears, but giving up our rights and plans, in deference to God\u2019s purposes for our lives is what Kay calls surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The dangerous part comes because our physical safety may be in jeopardy, but also because our emotional well-being will be \u201cgloriously ruined\u201d (as Kay calls it) forever. \u201cThere will always be a \u2018before AIDS\u2019 and \u2018after AIDS\u2019 classification for me,\u201d Kay explains. Being ruined to the life you knew before you where in direct contact with hurting people, means more than being disturbed by the statistics and reports of suffering. It requires doing something! Willingly, unreservedly, and deliberately, choosing to take on the pain of others, suffering\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0them requires self-sacrifice, obedience to Jesus, and surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Kay sees the solution to the AIDS crisis in the church. No other organization on earth is bigger than Christ\u2019s church. Churches are a part of a grassroots networking system, more effective than any bureaucracy. What other institution has the power of Almighty God associated with it? The challenge to all of us who share with Christ in the sufferings of others is found in Kay\u2019s answer to the inevitable question of why anyone should put their faith in the ordinary, flawed \u201closers\u201d who makeup the church: \u201cBecause,\u201d she says, \u201cGod does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Warren, the wife of Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, tells her own very personal story in\u00a0Dangerous Surrender: What Happens When You Say Yes to God. The title of her book,\u00a0Dangerous Surrender, accurately describes of her message. Surrender implies defeat, failure, capitulating, especially to our Western ears, but giving up our rights and plans, in [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-dangerous-surrender\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}