<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>John the Baptist on Rice Family Ministries</title><link>https://ricefamilyministries.com/tags/john-the-baptist/</link><description>Recent content in John the Baptist on Rice Family Ministries</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ricefamilyministries.com/tags/john-the-baptist/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Mark 1:5 -Paving the Way for Christ</title><link>https://ricefamilyministries.com/docs/bible_outlines/mark/20241103-mark1v5/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ricefamilyministries.com/docs/bible_outlines/mark/20241103-mark1v5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;November 3, 2024&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;div class="responsive-video"&gt;&#10; &#10;&lt;div style="position:relative;width:100%;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"&gt;&lt;iframe tabindex="-1" width="100%" height="100%" src="https://embed.sermonaudio.com/player/v/1029241329195180/" style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;/div&gt;&#10;&#10;&#10;&lt;h1 id="paving-the-way-for-christ"&gt;&#10; Paving the Way for Christ&#10; &lt;a class="anchor" href="#paving-the-way-for-christ"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/h1&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Mark 1:5-8&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="i--the-multitude--5"&gt;&#10; I. The Multitude &amp;ndash; (5)&#10; &lt;a class="anchor" href="#i--the-multitude--5"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;People are essential to ministry, you cannot minister to people you do&#10;not have.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;People are not central goal of the ministry!&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;We do not compromise truth to get people in or to keep people in&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;h3 id="a-coming-from"&gt;&#10; A. Coming from&#10; &lt;a class="anchor" href="#a-coming-from"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/h3&gt;&#10;&lt;h4 id="1-judaea---was-the-area-surrounding-jerusalem"&gt;&#10; 1. Judaea - was the area surrounding Jerusalem.&#10; &lt;a class="anchor" href="#1-judaea---was-the-area-surrounding-jerusalem"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/h4&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;Word spread, and people traveled.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;Travel was not easy in Bible times... they did.&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;h4 id="2-jerusalem--"&gt;&#10; 2. Jerusalem -&#10; &lt;a class="anchor" href="#2-jerusalem--"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/h4&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come&#10;upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in&#10;all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>