{"id":5894,"date":"2015-05-30T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2015-05-30T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:52:19","slug":"shutting-up-my-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5894\/shutting-up-my-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Up My Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am a 71 year old believer, called by God to preach the word.\u00a0 The current church or group of people I am with stress the importance of speaking in tongues as evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit (Ghost ).\u00a0 Having been in Baptist churches for many of my years, I have accepted speaking in tongues as a GIFT from God and that not all get that gift.\u00a0 I have not gotten the gift of speaking in tongues but would like to just to shut my current pastor up.\u00a0 I understand that it will come when God is ready, well I am ready so how do I speak in tongues?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200bMitch D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u200b==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Mitch,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>It sounds to me that you are the one who needs to shut up, not your pastor.\u00a0 Try humbling yourself and being quiet long enough to read this so that you might learn the truth of the gospel:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/tongues-at-spirit-baptism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/tongues-at-spirit-baptism.html<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Your servant,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I am a 71 year old believer, called by God to preach the word.\u00a0 The current church or group of people I am with stress the importance of speaking in tongues as evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit (Ghost ).\u00a0 Having been in Baptist churches for many of my years, I have accepted [&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-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894"}],"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=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}