{"id":14144,"date":"2023-08-30T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14144"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:15:50","slug":"ik-chapter-3-part-2-gary-and-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14144\/ik-chapter-3-part-2-gary-and-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Kingdom Chapter 3, Part 2: Gary and Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This new section from the Iron Kingdom book concerning &#8220;addicts&#8221; and ceremonies is fabulous.\u00a0 It was so exciting to read!\u00a0 I just wish all God&#8217;s people could understand the importance of it, and even care!\u00a0 But all the way through the reading of it, I kept thinking, &#8220;Jesus, I am so blessed to understand this, and why it matters!!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thank you for your work on it.\u00a0 Somehow, God will one day get it out there &#8211; I feel certain of it.\u00a0 We just have to wait for God to get His people&#8217;s hearts ready, I suppose.\u00a0 It seems that indifference to truth is so locked in right now that only very bad times for God&#8217;s people will jar their hearts to open up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Anyway, I did not find typos, and it was great &#8211; your best work ever in my opinion.\u00a0 Completely clear and exciting to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I enjoyed reading this section.\u00a0 You have made it very clear how ceremonial worship became a \u201csubstitute for being led by the spirit.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">As I read through this section, I could remember growing up in Catholicism, learning about and participating in various ceremonies, at times even with sincerity.\u00a0 It is only by the mercy of Jesus that he brought me out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thanks for all your work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tom<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, This new section from the Iron Kingdom book concerning &#8220;addicts&#8221; and ceremonies is fabulous.\u00a0 It was so exciting to read!\u00a0 I just wish all God&#8217;s people could understand the importance of it, and even care!\u00a0 But all the way through the reading of it, I kept thinking, &#8220;Jesus, I am so blessed to understand [&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-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144"}],"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=14144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}