{"id":4434,"date":"2026-04-09T03:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:16:58","slug":"teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/teach\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, April 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Teach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c\u2026teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.\u201d\u00a0<strong>Matthew 28:19, NLT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus didn\u2019t call His followers to simply share information, He called them to teach obedience. There\u2019s a difference! It\u2019s possible to know what Jesus said without living it. But real discipleship goes deeper. It\u2019s about allowing His words to shape how we think, how we act, and how we love. For the early disciples, teaching wasn\u2019t about classrooms or lectures, it was about life-on-life transformation. They modeled what it looked like to forgive, to serve, to trust God, and to live with bold faith. And that\u2019s still the call today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teaching others to obey begins with our own obedience. It means choosing forgiveness when it\u2019s hard, extending an olive branch even when it hurts, loving when it\u2019s inconvenient, trusting God when circumstances feel uncertain, and living out the truth, not just speaking it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People don\u2019t just learn from what we say, they learn from how we live. The resurrection gives power to this kind of life. Because Jesus is alive, His words are not distant teachings they are present truth, empowered by His Spirit. And remember the promise that follows\u00a0<em>\u201cI am with you always\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are not carrying this responsibility alone. The greatest Teacher walks with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer for today:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Lord, help me not just to know Your Word, but to live it. Shape my life so that others can see You through me. Give me wisdom to guide others and humility to keep growing myself. Thank You that You are always with me as I follow and obey You. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 9 Teach \u00a0\u201c\u2026teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.\u201d\u00a0Matthew 28:19, NLT Jesus didn\u2019t call His followers to simply share information, He called them to teach obedience. There\u2019s a difference! It\u2019s possible to know what Jesus said without living it. But real discipleship goes deeper. It\u2019s about allowing His words to shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}