{"id":255,"date":"2009-02-02T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-02-02T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:18:21","slug":"church-vs-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/255\/church-vs-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Church vs Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">My friend attends a church service for young people that meets on Sunday evenings (it&#8217;s Four Square, actually).\u00a0 He told me last night that the pastor had canceled the service because he knew that most of the young people would not be there.\u00a0 I was shocked when I heard that!\u00a0 He told them to worship the Lord by spending quality time with family &amp; friends watching the game.\u00a0 So, when Token told me that you all were getting together during Super Bowl time, it felt really special.\u00a0 It made me feel a lot of love and thankfulness for everyone there.\u00a0 I was SO glad that everyone valued what God was doing (with Vince &amp; in general) more than a game.\u00a0 Watching sports is fine, in its place, but I&#8217;m so glad that I know people who realize that when God is moving, the game becomes secondary (or tertiary, etc etc).\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">~ Bekah<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Unfortunately, in many cases,\u00a0it\u00a0is just\u00a0a matter of canceling one spectator sport for another.\u00a0 The young people there are obviously not being fed the truth; or, if they are, they\u00a0love the world more.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>daddy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend attends a church service for young people that meets on Sunday evenings (it&#8217;s Four Square, actually).\u00a0 He told me last night that the pastor had canceled the service because he knew that most of the young people would not be there.\u00a0 I was shocked when I heard that!\u00a0 He told them to worship [&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-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}