{"id":14217,"date":"2023-09-19T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:33:51","slug":"church-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14217\/church-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning!<\/span><\/p>\n

I am working on finishing up the addresses for Spirit-filled churches for us to send out the Sound of the Spirit book.\u00a0 We have quite a few – thousands of them.\u00a0 As I type them in, I can\u2019t help but feel the competition in just the names of each of these places.\u00a0 Just to give yourself a name to win more people by having the best title.\u00a0 For example: Main Line Assembly, Abundant Life, New Life Worship, Redeemed Christian Church of God Strong Tower Sanctuary, Strong Faith Family Church, River of Life, Rock of Living Waters, Freedom Life Church, Body of Christ, Refuge Church, The Lord\u2019s Tabernacle, the First Assembly ect., ect.\u00a0 Every place \u201chas the best\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For someone seeking the real God and the real Jesus, it must be confusing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mess in there.\u00a0 Thank the Lord that Jesus made a way for us to get down on our knees and pray and have a direct line to him through his sweet holy ghost, not requiring any titles or special names, just humility.\u00a0 When he answers, there is no confusion.\u00a0 Staying out\/coming out of that – Christianity – will make you sane.\u00a0 Just reading the titles has such a competitive spirit, to be entangled in one or all of them, can send you to places unknown in your spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love what we have been learning about how Jesus feels about his people and not being apart of Christianity.\u00a0 The further away you get from it, the more you feel Jesus\u2019 feelings and the love he has for his dear people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank the Lord for peace! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope all is well!<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy B.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amy, reading this makes me realize what a huge thing it was back in 1974 when the Spirit told me not to go to church. That’s a BIG thing, and He made it so easy for me to obey!!! And my children didn’t even need to think about where they were going.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not a small thing!!!!!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People equate God with church, and the Lord just dispelled all of that in an instant for me. Wonderful!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah<\/span><\/p>\n

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Morning! I am working on finishing up the addresses for Spirit-filled churches for us to send out the Sound of the Spirit book.\u00a0 We have quite a few – thousands of them.\u00a0 As I type them in, I can\u2019t help but feel the competition in just the names of each of these places.\u00a0 Just to […]<\/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-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217"}],"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=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}