{"id":8540,"date":"2026-03-13T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:01:14","slug":"lost-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8540","title":{"rendered":"Lost Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cThese twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: \u201cGo nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, proclaim the good news, \u2018The kingdom of heaven has come near.\u2019  Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for laborers deserve their food.\u201d MATTHEW 9:5-10 (NRSV)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: \u201cGo nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, proclaim the good news, \u2018The kingdom of heaven has come near.\u2019 Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, no bag for your&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=8540\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}