{"id":13051,"date":"2022-06-19T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:02:00","slug":"iron-kingdom-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13051\/iron-kingdom-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Kingdom Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Reading more of the first chapter of your Iron Kingdom book is giving me a clearer understanding of at least one reason Christianity began.\u00a0 Since its inception, Christianity has been a hiding place for any backslidden saint who didn\u2019t want to obey the will of God.\u00a0 Who chose to live in sin.\u00a0 Simply put, Christianity is a hiding place for sin!\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter your lifestyle, Christianity welcomes you with open arms!\u00a0 Think about some of Christianity\u2019s most seductive little catch-phrases, all designed to justify the sinner:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Come join the church of your choice<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">You gotta love everybody unconditionally<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Once saved; always saved<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Christians aren\u2019t perfect, just forgiven<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">The blood of Christ covers a multitude of sins<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Take it on faith; Don\u2019t go by your feelings<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">It\u2019s by grace that we are saved, not by works<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Stand on the word<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">God loves everyone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bloom where you\u2019re planted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Bible is the Word of God<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">John 3:16 (For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I looked up Christian slogans and found a few that are not as common, but were notable:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The church is the safest place on earth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Keep quiet and let it be handled by a Christian<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Live today as a Christian, or burn tomorrow in hell<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Follow Christianity to cleanse your sins<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">To be like Christ is to be a Christian<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\">Christianity is the only true religion\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In all my search of Christian sayings or slogans, I can tell you what I didn\u2019t find:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cYou must be born again with the evidence of speaking in other tongues\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Amen!\u00a0 I love the simplicity of the truth!\u00a0 I love that our hiding place is in the shadow of his wings!\u00a0 I want to stay hidden in Him!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lee Ann<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading more of the first chapter of your Iron Kingdom book is giving me a clearer understanding of at least one reason Christianity began.\u00a0 Since its inception, Christianity has been a hiding place for any backslidden saint who didn\u2019t want to obey the will of God.\u00a0 Who chose to live in sin.\u00a0 Simply put, Christianity [&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-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051"}],"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=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}