{"id":4910,"date":"2014-10-06T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:40:20","slug":"gifts-without-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4910\/gifts-without-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts without Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Question\/Comments\u200b:\u200b I\u200b&#8217;\u200bVE BEEN SO DISCOURAGED WITH CHURCH AS I KNOW IT\u200b,\u200b AND THE LACK OF LOVE TO ONE ANOTHER DESPLAYING THE TRUE HEAR\u200bT\u200b OF GOD. \u200b \u200bI SEE GIFTS BUT NO LOVE\u200b,\u200b AND WHEN I CAME ACROSS YOUR VIDEO\u200b,\u200b I SAW LOVE.\u200b.\u200b.FREEDOM\u200b.\u200b..UNITY\u200b.\u200b..JOY \u2013\u200b \u200bSOMTHING I HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR IN THE ESTABLISH\u200bED\u200b CHURCHES\u200b.\u00a0 DO YOU HAVE A CHURCH IN NORTH CAROLINA\u200b?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">THANK YOU FOR DESPLAYING THE FATHER\u200b&#8217;\u200bS HEART.\u200b \u200b I PRAY I GET TO MEET YOU ONE DAY. \u200b \u200bCAN WE HAVE GIFTS WITHOUT LOVE IS THE QUESTION I BEEN ASKING MYSELF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200bRenee W.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200b==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, Renee, the gifts of God can be exercised without the love of God. If you ever see that happening, pray for the people involved.\u00a0 God has many good people who need guidance and strength as they labor to do the work of the Lord as it should be done.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>As for church religion, in my judgment, God&#8217;s people would be better off without it. There is nothing wrong, Renee, with gathering in a home with a few happy souls to worship God instead of attending church meetings filled with division and confusion.\u00a0 Jesus promised that he would be in the midst of two or three who gathered in his name.\u00a0 If we would all simply trust what Jesus said, and act on it, we would all be happier and more united in the faith of Christ than we are at present.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Saints around here meet to worship the Lord and edify one another in a home near Burlington, NC, in southern Alamance County.\u00a0 If you ever plan to come this way, let us know.\u00a0 We would love to meet you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question\/Comments\u200b:\u200b I\u200b&#8217;\u200bVE BEEN SO DISCOURAGED WITH CHURCH AS I KNOW IT\u200b,\u200b AND THE LACK OF LOVE TO ONE ANOTHER DESPLAYING THE TRUE HEAR\u200bT\u200b OF GOD. \u200b \u200bI SEE GIFTS BUT NO LOVE\u200b,\u200b AND WHEN I CAME ACROSS YOUR VIDEO\u200b,\u200b I SAW LOVE.\u200b.\u200b.FREEDOM\u200b.\u200b..UNITY\u200b.\u200b..JOY \u2013\u200b \u200bSOMTHING I HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR IN THE ESTABLISH\u200bED\u200b CHURCHES\u200b.\u00a0 DO YOU [&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-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910"}],"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=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}