{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Acts Daily Devotional Podcast","title":"Day 114 — Paul's Farewell: Guard the Flock (Acts 20:28-31) | August 17 ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":410,"description":"Paul turns the mirror forward. Yesterday was the rearview. Now he charges the elders with what comes next. Be on guard. And notice where the guarding starts. Not with the flock. With yourselves. Then he widens the lens to the church, which he describes as the people God purchased with His own blood. Every person in every pew has a receipt hanging from their shirt that reads purchased by the blood of Christ. Then Paul names the threats. Savage wolves from outside. And worse, men rising up from inside their own number. Church history would prove him right within a decade. Churches rarely die from external persecution. They die from the inside, when leaders stop watching their own hearts and truth gets soft around the edges. Paul ends with a memory. Three years of warning each one with tears. Strong shepherding and soft weeping usually happen together. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mDCSf6VLcVTj9DA1o6CKS_loTRTZ8WlreJzhCflj8BA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84M2Mw/NjZlMTQ5MDE0MmYw/M2Q3Y2YwZmZkM2Fm/N2M4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}