{"id":14268,"date":"2023-10-12T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14268"},"modified":"2023-10-12T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:11:18","slug":"back-to-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14268\/back-to-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Basics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Good morning!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>Jesus did not invent the idea that those who hear and obey God belong to Jesus\u2019 family; Jesus got that idea from his Father in heaven!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>We know how Jesus answered the question, \u201cWho is my family?\u201d Now, how do you answer it?<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt10-12<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I read this\u00a0excerpt from the Random Thought, October 12. \u00a0I love this because when Jesus first brought me here to the body, this is exactly how I felt.\u00a0\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t manufactured or drummed up;\u00a0it was what Jesus put in my\u00a0<strong>new<\/strong>\u00a0heart!\u00a0 Somewhere along the way, I began to feel like I was taking that too literal,\u00a0but you know what\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0This is exactly what Jesus put in my heart then and\u00a0it is still there\u00a0now.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0text\u00a0with Ashley for just a minute this morning,\u00a0and\u00a0just\u00a0seeing her name on a\u00a0message made this feel even sweeter.\u00a0\u00a0Ashley is my sister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I think I am learning that going back to the basics with Jesus is a wonderful thing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Beth D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">========<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Amen, Beth!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Never get far from the basics.\u00a0 There is peace with Jesus in those simple truths of the gospel.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! You wrote: Jesus did not invent the idea that those who hear and obey God belong to Jesus\u2019 family; Jesus got that idea from his Father in heaven! We know how Jesus answered the question, \u201cWho is my family?\u201d Now, how do you answer it?\u00a0 https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=rdt10-12 I read this\u00a0excerpt from the Random Thought, [&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-14268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268"}],"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=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}