{"id":5840,"date":"2015-05-06T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2015-05-06T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T18:44:09","slug":"esteeming-the-gift-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5840\/esteeming-the-gift-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteeming the Gift of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I was raised Baptist, and I knew something was not right all my life (of course, God placed that in my heart), but imagine living 22 years of your life without the holy ghost and God dealing with u!!\u00a0 The problem that I see with Pentecostals is that many &#8220;get saved&#8221; and then &#8220;baptized with the Spirit&#8221; at an early age &#8211; only because their Pentecostal doctrine or heritage pushes them to do!!\u00a0 And they are never able to quite understand what really changed them because of their Doctrine or Heritage!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> I have had several people over the years tell me &#8220;Yeah, I spoke in tongues one time when I went to this church I grew up in&#8221;!!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t mean anything to them now as an adult or person!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> God laid a message on my heart a few weeks ago on the way home from work: &#8220;Do you love the Gift of God?&#8221;\u00a0 I think that is a great question, and unfortunately, many have forsaken that gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> John C.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I was raised Baptist, and I knew something was not right all my life (of course, God placed that in my heart), but imagine living 22 years of your life without the holy ghost and God dealing with u!!\u00a0 The problem that I see with Pentecostals is that many &#8220;get saved&#8221; and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840"}],"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=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}