{"id":13017,"date":"2022-05-27T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13017"},"modified":"2022-05-27T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:42:00","slug":"thankful-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13017\/thankful-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am really in awe of the Introduction to Book Three in the Iron Kingdom Series.\u00a0 In awe of what Jesus has shown you, and you in turn have shown to us.\u00a0 In awe that we have escaped the tight grip that Christianity has had on God’s own children for centuries. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t tell you how many times I have had to lay my computer aside and talk to Jesus about what I was reading and feeling.\u00a0 It feels so big!\u00a0 And makes me feel so small!\u00a0 And I’ve found myself asking Jesus “Why us?”<\/span><\/p>\n

And then tonight I read this simple sentence on page 61, and it answered, at least in part, my “why us” question:\u00a0“Thankfully, we have in Paul an example of a faithful servant of God.\u00a0 He was faithful to the revelation given to him and to the One who gave it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe Jesus has revealed these things to you, John, for the same reason He trusted Paul with the truth of the gospel.\u00a0 You have been a faithful servant to the revelation given and to the One who gave it.\u00a0 It really is that simple. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel certain that others have been shown the truth about Christianity, but were either unwilling or afraid to pay the price for telling it.\u00a0 I don’t know their reason.\u00a0 But you, like Paul, believed the truth when you heard it.\u00a0 And you have been faithfully exposing the truth that Christianity is the “hairy-legged Roman Empire in drag, passing himself off as the Bride of Christ” ever since Jesus revealed it to you. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s so big!\u00a0 And I don’t feel worthy to even know it, but I’m thankful I do!<\/span><\/p>\n

All I know is that I am sitting here tonight feeling thankful to call you my pastor and my friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Ann<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am really in awe of the Introduction to Book Three in the Iron Kingdom Series.\u00a0 In awe of what Jesus has shown you, and you in turn have shown to us.\u00a0 In awe that we have escaped the tight grip that Christianity has had on God’s own children for centuries. \u00a0 I can’t tell […]<\/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-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017"}],"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=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}