{"id":13330,"date":"2022-10-10T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2022-10-10T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:58:29","slug":"a-christian-movie-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13330\/a-christian-movie-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian Movie Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good morning, Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I wanted to tell you about an experience I had last night.\u00a0 I was tired from a busy weekend, so last night I thought I would sit down and watch a movie.\u00a0 It was one of those &#8220;clean, Christian&#8221; movies.\u00a0 It was about a new youth pastor working to get a group of teenagers interested\u00a0in the bible and in Jesus. As I watched it, there were some very sweet moments, some good things being said.\u00a0 But at the end of the movie someone died and the ending message was something like: read Romans, accept Jesus, and you&#8217;ll be home with him forever.\u00a0 I turned the TV off, and I had this anger and disgust\u00a0bubble up.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;Jesus, I hate Christianity!\u00a0 It is a lie.\u00a0 Any small bit of goodness is snatched up and devoured.&#8221;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever felt a hate for Christianity like I did last night.\u00a0 I went to bed talking to Jesus about it and praying for the honest souls that are in it.\u00a0 I fell asleep with the thought, &#8220;Jesus, get your people out of it!\u00a0 I pray for its destruction.&#8221;\u00a0 I woke up this morning singing Gary&#8217;s song &#8220;The Straw Man&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I felt like something else in my heart was cleaned out.\u00a0 The wrong thought, that there is such a thing as a &#8220;clean Christian&#8221; movie was fixed.\u00a0 There is nothing clean about Christianity, no matter what form it takes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michelle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thank you for this, Michelle.\u00a0 Jesus is showing you his heart, and the Father&#8217;s.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, Pastor John, I wanted to tell you about an experience I had last night.\u00a0 I was tired from a busy weekend, so last night I thought I would sit down and watch a movie.\u00a0 It was one of those &#8220;clean, Christian&#8221; movies.\u00a0 It was about a new youth pastor working to get 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-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330"}],"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=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}