{"id":16262,"date":"2026-08-25T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16262"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:35:57","slug":"the-rock-from-which-we-are-hewn-from-pastor-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16262\/the-rock-from-which-we-are-hewn-from-pastor-john\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock from Which We Are Hewn from, Pastor John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Years ago, when we started loving God and obeying the truth, we received some of the same persecution from our families and friends that you talked about in your message on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0Living in Ridgeway among our family members and former friends, we felt isolated and alone.\u00a0\u00a0We were no longer invited to family dinners or other functions and pretty much ignored.\u00a0\u00a0They tried to persuade us at one point to go to any Pentecostal church, anything but John Clark&#8217;s meetings.\u00a0\u00a0We continued loving the truth that you were teaching, and what God was showing us.\u00a0\u00a0The persecution from our families was irrelevant.\u00a0\u00a0We feel privileged to be a part of this work that God has given you and to be a part of this family of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Thank you for this message reminding us again that this is how it has always been and will continue to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Randell<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Years ago, when we started loving God and obeying the truth, we received some of the same persecution from our families and friends that you talked about in your message on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0Living in Ridgeway among our family members and former friends, we felt isolated and alone.\u00a0\u00a0We were no longer invited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262"}],"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=16262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16264,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16262\/revisions\/16264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}