{"id":6202,"date":"2013-10-22T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:17","slug":"testimonial-god-reveals-grace-to-dance-instructor-using-blb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2013\/10\/22\/testimonial-god-reveals-grace-to-dance-instructor-using-blb\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonial: God Reveals Grace to Dance Instructor Using BLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui-gen22\"><b id=\"yui-gen23\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/assets\/images\/about\/stories\/rebecca\/danceinstructor.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"127\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"yui-gen23\">AFTER FOLLOWING CHRIST FOR OVER 20 YEARS, REBECCA, A DANCE STUDIO OWNER, ENTERED WHAT SHE DESCRIBED AS A \u201cDARK SEASON.\u201d \u201cI HAD BECOME SPIRITUALLY LAZY AND SELF SUFFICIENT,\u201d REBECCA REVEALS, \u201cI WASN\u2019T GROWING IN MY FAITH AND MADE CHOICES OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui-gen24\">Rebecca realized she needed to return to studying God\u2019s Word and she remembered that her pastor had recommended Blue Letter Bible.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui-gen35\">One of the Blue Letter Bible resources that brought Rebecca from this time of despair was Bob Hoekstra\u2019s daily devotional, Day by Day by Grace.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui-gen25\"><b>\u201cPastor Bob pounded again and again on the fact that grace is the only means of salvation,\u201d Rebecca explained.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Hoekstra\u2019s clear teaching of the Scriptures helped Rebecca grasp that much of her dark path detour was caused by her poor understanding of grace. Rebecca shares, \u201cI was trying to be sanctified by good works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui-gen26\">Rebecca adds, \u201cNow, I know it was God\u2019s grace that let me fail in my own strength, in order to show me that my sufficiency is in Christ alone. That\u2019s when God showed me grace and gave me peace!\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui-gen34\">Today, Rebecca not only uses Blue Letter Bible to continue her own personal Bible studies, but she also uses it to help others. Currently, Rebecca is discipling her middle school and high school dance students about God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER FOLLOWING CHRIST FOR OVER 20 YEARS, REBECCA, A DANCE STUDIO OWNER, ENTERED WHAT SHE DESCRIBED AS A \u201cDARK SEASON.\u201d \u201cI HAD BECOME SPIRITUALLY LAZY AND SELF SUFFICIENT,\u201d REBECCA REVEALS, \u201cI WASN\u2019T GROWING IN MY FAITH AND MADE CHOICES OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES.\u201d Rebecca realized she needed to return to studying God\u2019s Word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}