{"id":866,"date":"2013-03-11T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2016-02-23T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:56:54","slug":"chocolate-and-crosses-and-eggs-and-tombs-what-is-this-easter-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/chocolate-and-crosses-and-eggs-and-tombs-what-is-this-easter-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate and Crosses and Eggs and Tombs. What is this Easter thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cne-school.jpg\" alt=\"Giveaway in school\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cne-school.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cne-school-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cne-school-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easter is coming round the corner and the stores are stocking candies and toys for this holiday. If a person who doesn&#8217;t know anything about the Bible looked at what was in the stores, what do you think he or she will conclude about Easter?<\/p>\n<p>Easter is a natural time to share with friends and family who Jesus is and what he did here on earth. It&#8217;s an opportunity to share the gospel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One boy took the opportunity to hand out copies of <em><a title=\"What are Christmas and Easter all About? on goodseed.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/what-are-christmas-and-easter-all-about.html\">What are Christmas and Easter all about?<\/a><\/em> to his classmates. In eighty pages, the book explains in easy English and with full-colour illustrations what Easter is all about by giving an overview of the gospel message. His classmates were happy to take the book and read through it.<\/p>\n<p>We heard of a man who also took the opportunity and posted a message on Facebook, offering any of his friends a free copy of &#8220;What are Christmas and Easter all about?&#8221; Colleagues came up to him and he handed each one a copy of the book. He even sent a PDF copy to a friend living overseas who responded to his Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>This coming Easter, why not take the opportunity to cut through the clutter of bunnies and baskets and egg hunts to provide your friends with a good overview of the gospel message.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is coming round the corner and the stores are stocking candies and toys for this holiday. If a person who doesn&#8217;t know anything about the Bible looked at what was in the stores, what do you think he or she will conclude about Easter? Easter is a natural time to share with friends and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/chocolate-and-crosses-and-eggs-and-tombs-what-is-this-easter-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chocolate and Crosses and Eggs and Tombs. What is this Easter thing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-ready","category-give-away-the-gospel","category-what-are-christmas-and-easter-all-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}