{"id":5173,"date":"2014-12-23T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2014-12-23T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:31:55","slug":"what-about-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5173\/what-about-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"What about Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How do u deal with Christmas? Thank U.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Also, what identifier\/s do u prefer to &#8220;Christian&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Jeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Jeff.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank you for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>First, Christmas is just a cultural thing in America and other countries, no more evil than the Fourth of July or other national holidays.\u00a0 Christians who become belligerent against Christmas are as foolish as Christians who become belligerent for it.\u00a0 It is nothing, one way or the other.\u00a0 So, we enjoy the holiday, in moderation of course, as we do all others, if we are inclined to do so.\u00a0 If someone is not inclined to participate in the current Christmas tradition, so be it. &#8220;Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I hope that you and yours have a very merry Christmas!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Secondly, I leave identifiers to those who want to identify me.\u00a0 That way, the hidden thoughts of their own hearts are revealed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Jeffrey<\/span>, How would you identify me?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Thank you again for writing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Your servant in Christ,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. How do u deal with Christmas? Thank U. Also, what identifier\/s do u prefer to &#8220;Christian&#8221;? Jeff ========== Hi Jeff. Thank you for writing. First, Christmas is just a cultural thing in America and other countries, no more evil than the Fourth of July or other national holidays.\u00a0 Christians who become belligerent against Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"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=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}