{"id":4870,"date":"2014-09-30T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:21:13","slug":"watch-the-news-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4870\/watch-the-news-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the news or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">RE:\u00a0 A recent article you wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Below is a quote from a recent article you wrote about a conversation you had with a young man you met at Yellowstone:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0\u201cI had to ask myself, \u2018Am I as dedicated to my calling in Christ, and free from interest in this world\u2019s vanities, as that young man was?\u2019\u00a0\u00a0<em>He was not in the least attracted to or interested in the latest political scandal, or \u201cimportant\u201d sporting event, or rumors of war, no matter what countries it involved.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">To help me have a clearer and correct understanding of the point you are making, please explain\u00a0how what you say below fits in with your father&#8217;s testimony about the Lord wanting him to watch the news and be aware of current events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">JWS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Wendell.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">That is a good question, one which I considered dealing with in that article itself, but I decided to wait to see if anyone would ask it.\u00a0 Thanks for bring it up.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">The young man to whom I spoke was completely committed to the life he had chosen, so committed that he refused to allow his heart to be troubled or his mind cluttered with information about the \u201cworld outside the park\u201d.\u00a0 I felt challenged by his whole-hearted approach to life.\u00a0 Am I as whole-hearted in my service to Jesus?\u00a0 Or do worldly things distract me?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">That was the good that I saw in what the young man said.\u00a0 It went no further than that.\u00a0 I still believe, as my father taught me, that God\u2019s children need to know what is going on in the world at large, and at the same time, have enough faith in God to obey Jesus\u2019 command to, \u201clet not your hearts be troubled.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">I hope that explains what I meant in the article to which you referred.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">jdc<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RE:\u00a0 A recent article you wrote. &nbsp; John, Below is a quote from a recent article you wrote about a conversation you had with a young man you met at Yellowstone: \u00a0\u201cI had to ask myself, \u2018Am I as dedicated to my calling in Christ, and free from interest in this world\u2019s vanities, as that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870"}],"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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}