{"id":14252,"date":"2023-10-07T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2023-10-07T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T01:00:30","slug":"church-based-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14252\/church-based-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Church-Based Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hi John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I&#8217;ve been reading your writings on \u201cChurch-based religion\u201d.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very good.\u00a0 When I was reading it, the one word that came to my mind was a corporation. The backslidden body of Christ tried to incorporate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I looked up the definition of corporation:\u00a0\u201cA corporation is an organization\u2014usually a group of people or a company\u2014authorized by the state to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.\u00a0 Early incorporated entities were established by charter\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Christianity, spiritually, is just that, an organized group of people for a purpose.\u00a0 And Christianity&#8217;s purpose was to offer sinners an alternative to being baptized by the Spirit into the true body of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I\u2019ve never really thought of the word \u201cchurch-based\u201d before.\u00a0 I thought it was real good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thanks for your Iron Kingdom samples!\u00a0 Cheerio!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi John. I&#8217;ve been reading your writings on \u201cChurch-based religion\u201d.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very good.\u00a0 When I was reading it, the one word that came to my mind was a corporation. The backslidden body of Christ tried to incorporate. I looked up the definition of corporation:\u00a0\u201cA corporation is an organization\u2014usually a group of people or a company\u2014authorized [&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-14252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252"}],"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=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}