{"id":250,"date":"2014-03-18T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=250"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:18:37","slug":"a-near-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"A Near Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Near Miss<\/h1>\n<h2>A captain nearly misses the opportunity to share Christ with a young and supposedly wild young lieutenant.<\/h2>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">Mr.<\/span>\u00a0Cooper was a young, careless and somewhat wild young officer. But inside he was longing for some real Christian to speak to him about his spiritual need. Because of this, he exchanged from one regiment into another, knowing that in the latter was a captain who was well known as an earnest Christian, and Cooper thought that, if he got near him, the captain would be sure to speak to him about such an important subject.<div class=\"su-pullquote su-pullquote-align-left\"><em>Cooper thought that, if he got near him, the captain would be sure to speak to him about such an important subject.<\/em><\/div>\u00a0The two officers had adjoining rooms in the barracks which they sometimes used to change into their uniforms before going on parade, and, while so doing, would often run in and out of each other\u2019s rooms carrying on a conversation, but the captain never brought up the subject of Christ. One day, the young lieutenant decided to force the matter, and he placed an open Bible on his table where it would be seen. The captain soon came in and, seeing the Bible, said, \u201cHey! I didn\u2019t know you went in for that kind of thing.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t,\u201d replied the young officer, \u201cbut I would like to.\u201d That opened up the way for a heart-to-heart talk, through which \u00a0the young officer definitely accepted Christ as his Saviour, bringing joy to the captain\u2019s heart. But, mixed with his gladness, I think there must have been a sense of rebuke that he had not seen the soul ready to be won. He had almost missed the low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=250&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/email_famfamfam.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=250&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email This Post<\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gospel Story 006 adapted from Hand-Gathered Fruit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Near Miss A captain nearly misses the opportunity to share Christ with a young and supposedly wild young lieutenant. \u00a0Cooper was a young, careless and somewhat wild young officer. But inside he was longing for some real Christian to speak to him about his spiritual need. Because of this, he exchanged from one regiment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Near Miss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-witness","category-powerful-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}