{"id":33148,"date":"2012-06-20T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_new_sbc_president_fred_luters_trailblazing_life_has_been_rich_with_trial\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:00:48","slug":"bp_new_sbc_president_fred_luters_trailblazing_life_has_been_rich_with_trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33148","title":{"rendered":"(BP) New SBC President Fred Luter&#39;s trailblazing life has been rich with trials as well as blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the hospital three months [after an accident]&#8230;he soon walked on crutches down the aisle of Greater Mt. Carmel and committed himself to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I immediately started a street ministry because &#8230; I was so shocked by my relationship with Christ, I wanted everybody in my neighborhood, all my partners &#8230; to know the God that I knew,&#8221; Luter said. &#8220;So every Saturday at 12 noon I&#8217;d be preaching on different streets of the Lower Ninth Ward and sharing Christ. And that&#8217;s how, as they say, that&#8217;s how it all began.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention is amazed at how God has blessed his ministry, opening doors previously closed to those from Luter&#8217;s side of town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=38080\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the hospital three months [after an accident]&#8230;he soon walked on crutches down the aisle of Greater Mt. Carmel and committed himself to the Lord. &#8220;I immediately started a street ministry because &#8230; I was so shocked by my relationship<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33148\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,422,435,154,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}