{"id":13938,"date":"2026-01-25T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13938"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:43:23","slug":"a-vision-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-vision-for-the-world","title":{"rendered":"A Vision for the World"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re talking about the HARVEST\u2014how God wants us to have His vision for the world. And what is God\u2019s vision for the world? Jesus tells us in Mark 16:15: &#8220;And he said to them, &#8216;Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is God\u2019s vision for the church. It\u2019s God\u2019s vision for me and for you! The challenge for many of us is not that we disagree with God\u2019s vision, but that we feel overwhelmed by it. We hear the vision, but the world? That\u2019s just too big for our minds to grasp! For others it\u2019s more a matter of feeling disconnected from it. <\/p>\n<p>How do ordinary believers like us move from feeling overwhelmed or disconnected from the mission to experiencing the joy of meaningful partnership in God\u2019s vision for the world? That\u2019s exactly what the apostle Paul helps us see in Philippians 4. In the apostle Paul\u2019s letter to the Philippians, he expressed his joy for their partnership with him for the gospel, viewing their generous support as a spiritual investment that fueled the gospel\u2019s advance and brought glory to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13939,"template":"","tags":[],"series":[2986],"scripture-book":[1317],"scripture-chapter":[1337],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13938","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-vision","scripture-book-philippians","scripture-chapter-1337","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13938\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}