{"id":1045,"date":"2010-07-18T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2010-07-18T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:01:45","slug":"coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1045\/coming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/christorchristianity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/christorchristianity.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I read with interest the article &#8220;Christ and Christianity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am happy to inform you that I love reading your writings, particularly that concerning &#8220;Coming out of Christianity&#8221;. \u00a0It makes sense on the basis of what you have mentioned, for after I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, after a very short while, I began to change and see vividly that it is not true Christianity in the Churches, it is a showy business. It is excellent to be a servant and disciple of Jesus, but do I have to remain outside a church all my life? I already have left the church whatsoever, and do not attend a church.Please I need your advice. Also I would appreciate it if you would provide me with a copy of your &#8220;Why I Left Christianity&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you and Jesus bless you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sincerely in Jesus name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A.\u00a0S. M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">July 18, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Dear Friend:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Your sincere question, &#8220;Do I have to remain outside a church all my life?&#8221; suggests that you still do not fully understand that the Church is an evil institution. Those who really see Christianity for what it is say instead, &#8220;Praise God! \u00a0He has delivered me from church religion!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>My advice to you is the same as the advice I have given to others: \u00a0If you have heard the call of Jesus to come out of the Babylon of Christianity, you are doing just fine where you are. \u00a0Stay close to Jesus, and he will put you together with others who are of like mind and heart.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Doing the will of God and pleasing Him is far simpler than you know, but you will find it out if you continue following after what is right in His sight!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>God bless you and yours.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/christorchristianity.html I read with interest the article &#8220;Christ and Christianity.&#8221; I am happy to inform you that I love reading your writings, particularly that concerning &#8220;Coming out of Christianity&#8221;. \u00a0It makes sense on the basis of what you have mentioned, for after I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, after a very short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}