{"id":5796,"date":"2015-04-21T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2015-04-21T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:54:00","slug":"the-right-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5796\/the-right-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How are ya doing. We are good. Just a quick question?\u00a0 Reading in acts\u00a0where it reads &#8220;and the lord added to the church&#8221;. What would be the right word for &#8220;church&#8221;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Greg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Greg.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">What the author of Acts originally wrote is &#8220;the Lord added to the congregation (or assembly)&#8221;.\u00a0 Neither that man nor any other New Testament writer ever used the Greek noun for a religious building, &#8220;church&#8221;.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Thank you for the question.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, How are ya doing. We are good. Just a quick question?\u00a0 Reading in acts\u00a0where it reads &#8220;and the lord added to the church&#8221;. What would be the right word for &#8220;church&#8221;? Thanks, Greg ========== Hi Greg. What the author of Acts originally wrote is &#8220;the Lord added to the congregation (or assembly)&#8221;.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796"}],"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=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}