{"id":28148,"date":"2025-07-06T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=28148"},"modified":"2025-07-06T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:15:37","slug":"we-70-go-out-and-share-the-good-news","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?ctc_sermon=we-70-go-out-and-share-the-good-news","title":{"rendered":"We 70:  go out and live the good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Gospel Reading<\/u><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Luke 10.1\u201311, 16\u201320<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>All<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Glory<\/strong><strong> to you, O Lord<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go.&nbsp; He said to them, \u2018The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.&nbsp; Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.&nbsp; Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road.&nbsp; Whatever house you enter, first say, \u201cPeace to this house!\u201d&nbsp; And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you.&nbsp; Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the labourer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house.&nbsp; Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you;&nbsp; cure the sick who are there, and say to them, \u201cThe kingdom of God has come near to you.\u201d But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say,&nbsp; \u201cEven the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2018Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The seventy returned with joy, saying, \u2018Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!\u2019&nbsp; He said to them, \u2018I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.&nbsp; See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you.&nbsp; Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the Gospel of the Lord&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All <\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Praise to you, O Christ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel Reading&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Luke 10.1\u201311, 16\u201320 &nbsp;Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew All&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Glory to you, O Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go.&nbsp; He said to them, \u2018The harvest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[333],"ctc_sermon_series":[397,361],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[347],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-28148","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-luke","ctc_sermon_series-ordinary-time","ctc_sermon_series-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_speaker-ruth-edy-llm","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/28148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28151,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/28148\/revisions\/28151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_topic&post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_book&post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_series&post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_speaker&post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fctc_sermon_tag&post=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}