{"id":16296,"date":"2026-09-22T08:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16296"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:02:19","slug":"montanus-reading-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16296\/montanus-reading-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Montanus reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve been enjoying reading in the Montanus book* lately.\u00a0\u00a0In the chapter, &#8220;The Spirit That Speaks by Montanus&#8221;, I love the last sentences:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a popular saying goes, &#8220;Join the church of your choice.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Yet, for us,&#8221; Paul wrote, &#8220;there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him, and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we exist by him&#8221; (1Cor. 8:6). Amen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amen! It was like a breath of fresh air blew through when I read these lines!\u00a0\u00a0Thank you for pouring your heart &amp; time into writing these books for us\u00a0and others to understand the history of Christianity versus our true history in Jesus!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amanda<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Amen, Amanda.\u00a0 If there is one God, we don&#8217;t get to choose which one we will serve.\u00a0 Jesus chooses us; we do not choose him.\u00a0 He said so!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>John 15:16. You haven\u2019t chosen me, but I have chosen you, and I have ordained you, that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I thank God that we do not have to choose which God and Jesus to serve!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">*<\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=montanus\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=montanus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! I&#8217;ve been enjoying reading in the Montanus book* lately.\u00a0\u00a0In the chapter, &#8220;The Spirit That Speaks by Montanus&#8221;, I love the last sentences: As a popular saying goes, &#8220;Join the church of your choice.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Yet, for us,&#8221; Paul wrote, &#8220;there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for [&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-16296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296"}],"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=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16297,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions\/16297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}