{"id":15919,"date":"2025-08-26T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:37:40","slug":"dont-go-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15919\/dont-go-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Go to Church!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve been listening to the\u00a0Monday morning\u00a0chat,\u00a0with\u00a0different ones&#8217;\u00a0experiences about going to church reminded me of my experience when the Lord told me not to go to church over 50 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0And when I would tell people what the Lord told me, nobody believed me until I met you.\u00a0 You not only believed me, you rejoiced about it more than I did because you knew how valuable\u00a0it was.\u00a0 I only knew what He told me and gave me the faith and confidence that it was right.\u00a0\u00a0I never doubted it. I just knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s really amazing how easy He made that for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sue&#8217;s testimony about this whole world being covered by that dark, black cloud of Christianity.\u00a0 And God kept me out of it!\u00a0 That&#8217;s amazing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sarah\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I&#8217;ve been listening to the\u00a0Monday morning\u00a0chat,\u00a0with\u00a0different ones&#8217;\u00a0experiences about going to church reminded me of my experience when the Lord told me not to go to church over 50 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0And when I would tell people what the Lord told me, nobody believed me until I met you.\u00a0 You not only believed me, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919"}],"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=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15920,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions\/15920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}