{"id":3043,"date":"2013-03-11T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2013-03-11T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:23:03","slug":"pauls-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3043\/pauls-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Good morning John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I just want to share one little thing. . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am so happy for some of the ways that Jesus has opened my eyes and my heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">On Facebook, there&#8217;s an acquaintance of mine who has a friend (female) who is a sister in the Lord, but has become very religious, attending a seminary to be a preacher\/evangelist. She is in her early thirties, I think. I&#8217;ve watched her videos, and one of the things she spoke about was <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Paul&#8217;s conversion <em>on the road to Damascus.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I thought, &#8220;Wow! I thank God (and my pastor), for showing me the truth about that incident: Saul was NOT <em>converted<\/em> on the road to Damascus, but was merely convicted&#8230;. and later converted and baptized by Ananias on Straight Street! He didn&#8217;t receive holy Spirit until that anointed man came to Paul and laid hands on him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The truth makes all the difference in the world. It reveals the errors of Christianity. It allows us to see clearly and deeply, the wisdom of God; and helps us to recognize misinformation and misinterpretation, while distinguishing the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Just a small thing, perhaps, but it makes me happy! I value the understanding that the Lord has shown, and that which He continues to reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brad<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning John! I just want to share one little thing. . . I am so happy for some of the ways that Jesus has opened my eyes and my heart. On Facebook, there&#8217;s an acquaintance of mine who has a friend (female) who is a sister in the Lord, but has become very religious, [&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-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043"}],"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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}