{"id":322,"date":"2022-08-31T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numberourdays.org\/?p=322"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:24","slug":"7-ways-to-shepherd-the-terminally-ill-by-phil-a-newton-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways to Shepherd the Terminally Ill by Phil A. Newton (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;As my wife and I walked the long corridors at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where I was receiving treatment, I commented, \u201cThere are so many terminal patients here.\u201d She reminded me, \u201cWe\u2019re all terminal.\u201d Living to be 80 or 90 may seem like a long time, but it\u2019s a speck of dust compared to eternity. As we seek to serve those that may be much closer to death than we are now, let\u2019s keep in mind our own mortality. How would we want to be shepherded in such times? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/7-ways-shepherd-terminally-ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8230;<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As my wife and I walked the long corridors at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where I was receiving treatment, I commented, \u201cThere are so many terminal patients here.\u201d She reminded me, \u201cWe\u2019re all terminal.\u201d Living to be 80 or 90 may seem like a long time, but it\u2019s a speck of dust compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}