{"id":16298,"date":"2026-09-27T10:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16298"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:17:37","slug":"do-this-not-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16298\/do-this-not-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Do THIS (not that)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was on the mower tonight, and I was talking to Jesus. \u00a0I had the sweetest thought come. \u00a0Something I heard through the years in the Catholic Church popped into my mind. \u00a0The phrase was, \u201cDo this in remembrance of Me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Then the thought came: \u201cThey say that because they do not serve the living God.\u201d \u00a0I thought about how true that is. \u00a0If Jesus is alive, you do not have to do it in remembrance of Him, because He is still alive and well.\u00a0\u00a0I thought about the video I watched this morning and how perfectly this thought went with what I feel in that video.\u00a0 I love when Jesus talks back when we are out there mowing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Beth.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>When Jesus said, &#8220;Do THIS in remembrance of me&#8221;, he was speaking about doing what HE was doing.\u00a0 And we do that all the time with one another when we break bread\u00a0together.\u00a0 When Christians celebrate a ritual of eating and drinking, they are not doing what Jesus was doing; they are doing what the disciples were doing.\u00a0 And the disciples were delivered from rituals, such as eating and drinking in a religious form, after the holy Ghost came and gave them life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Thank God, we have life from God, and can now worship the Father together in Spirit and truth!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor\u00a0John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was on the mower tonight, and I was talking to Jesus. \u00a0I had the sweetest thought come. \u00a0Something I heard through the years in the Catholic Church popped into my mind. \u00a0The phrase was, \u201cDo this in remembrance of Me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Then the thought came: \u201cThey say that because they do not serve the [&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-16298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298"}],"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=16298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16299,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions\/16299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}