{"id":10696,"date":"2019-07-15T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:46:53","slug":"happy-in-jesus-out-of-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10696\/happy-in-jesus-out-of-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy in Jesus, Out of \u201cChurch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love to write what I feel in spirit. It\u2019s been a year since I came out from church. I feel more peaceful than before and understand the scripture in Ezekiel 36:26. God said, \u201cI will put a new heart and a new spirit WITHIN YOU\u201d, from a stony heart to a heart of flesh (a responsive heart) &#8211; a new covenant. Then in 2Corinthians 5:7 &#8211; \u201cFor we walk by faith, not by sight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I will not go to church anymore in showing to others that I serve God. I don\u2019t live to be seen by other people as loving God, but I live with a hidden heart that loves God and lives in His spirit. For what is precious of God is a meek and quiet spirit, \u201cwhich is in the sight of God of great price.\u201d \u201cThe inward man is renewed day by day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I thank Jesus. Loving this kind of peace&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Leika O.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for writing, Leika. You have found the pearl of great price, and you love it. That makes you valuable, too.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>We love you in the Lord.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John, I love to write what I feel in spirit. It\u2019s been a year since I came out from church. I feel more peaceful than before and understand the scripture in Ezekiel 36:26. God said, \u201cI will put a new heart and a new spirit WITHIN YOU\u201d, from a stony heart to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696"}],"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=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}