{"id":115,"date":"2008-10-28T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/world-race-training-and-initiation-part-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T09:55:26","slug":"world-race-training-and-initiation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/world-race-training-and-initiation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Race Training &#038; Initiation, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;continuing yesterday&#8217;s blog on the World Race training for the men about to go on an 11-month mission trip&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Dave\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Dave\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cameroncaviness.theworldrace.org\/blogphotos\/theworldrace\/cameroncaviness\/h-men.jpg\" width=\"302\" align=\"right\" height=\"227\" hspace=\"5\" \/>After the guys had done their symbolic &#8220;sanctification,&#8221; we set off on a hike up and down (mostly up) in the North Georgia mountains.\u00a0 While we were cruising along, the guys got to know each other a little, and got to stretch their legs a little.\u00a0 Especially after Ben Messner, another World Race leader and trainer, asked to pick up the pace.\u00a0 That was just opening I was looking for.\u00a0 We started off on a run down the trail, over roots, rocks, and under those low-hanging branches&#8211;&#8220;Low Branch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the guys were sufficiently winded, we stopped to rest and recover.\u00a0 I let some of the guys give their testimonies before we talked about the next step in our initiation:\u00a0 Covenant and brotherhood.\u00a0 We talked about David&#8217;s mighty men, the 3 and the 30, and how they were committed to David&#8211;and ready to die for each other.\u00a0 These men are the type who would bless their leader with a cold glass of water, no matter what personal danger they had to go through themselves.\u00a0 We talked about becoming a &#8220;Band of Brothers,&#8221; and I asked the men to make a covenant statement&#8211;a statement that speaks about their commitment to each other, their commitment to God, and their commitment to tbheir mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;continuing yesterday&#8217;s blog on the World Race training for the men about to go on an 11-month mission trip&#8230; After the guys had done their symbolic &#8220;sanctification,&#8221; we set off on a hike up and down (mostly up) in the North Georgia mountains.\u00a0 While we were cruising along, the guys got to know each other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[159,131],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}