{"id":1562,"date":"2010-12-17T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2010-12-17T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:32:00","slug":"being-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1562\/being-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Being the Truth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I enjoyed reading the PastorJohnsHouse blog on Being the Truth.  There were several things that stood out to me.  One being that the truth is not a thing, but a who.  That is so good.  It&#8217;s beginning to sound like there is not much with the Father and the Son that is not a who; it&#8217;s all them and their representatives! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And, I love your questions: &#8220;Has he become flesh in you?  Are you the way and the light to others?  Can others attain to eternal life by following you?&#8221;  Preacher Clark asked a question the other day on an old meeting cd.  He said, &#8220;What kind of light are we to people when they don&#8217;t want to do the kinds of works we do?&#8221;  These are good questions and good self-checks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Also,  reading this part of your blog stirred up a memory for me, you wrote:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> &#8220;Paul wrote that &#8216;when he ascended on high, he gave gifts to men. . . . And he gave some, apostles, some prophets, some teachers,\u201d etc. This means that, as your pastor and teacher, I am a gift to you. And as light for others in this world, you are a gift to them.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Years ago in a prayer meeting, I was listening to you teach.  I was loving it so much.  I heard the Spirit speak to me and say, &#8220;A pastor is a gift.&#8221;  It was so clear.  Then, to know that the others God has placed around you are gifts as well, and you, gifts to them.  It is a wonderful thing to be given gifts from God.  It makes you think about how valuable our gifts are to us and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I love these thoughts. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Amy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed reading the PastorJohnsHouse blog on Being the Truth. There were several things that stood out to me. One being that the truth is not a thing, but a who. That is so good. It&#8217;s beginning to sound like there is not much with the Father and the Son that is not a who; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"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=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}