{"id":7454,"date":"2016-05-30T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2016-05-30T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:53:07","slug":"pearl-and-acts-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7454\/pearl-and-acts-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl and Acts 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">This Pearl of the Day reminds me of what I felt while reading the Acts 15 council discussion yesterday morning. \u00a0As we read, I could feel myself being drawn into the conversation of the council members while imagining that I was sitting among them feeling the tension and suspense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">When the main discussion was over, there was a brief heavy silence, a feeling of anticipation of what might happen next. Then, Peter stood up. My eyes filled with tears as Peter&#8217;s testimony was read, just as they are this moment as I type this. \u00a0No one could dispute Peter&#8217;s testimony. It was his experience of what God did. I felt blessed to be among a long list of Gentiles that were born into God&#8217;s family, starting with the household of Cornelius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">My heart continued to be full of emotion as you read Paul&#8217;s final points taken from Ephesians. I am glad that you added that section. \u00a0It was like I was hearing it for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We are truly blessed to know and believe the truth described in what you wrote. Thank you for all the work you put in to writing it. It makes me realize that what took place in Acts 15 was a major event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Tom<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7459\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/may29-pearl.jpg\" alt=\"May29 Pearl\" width=\"535\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/may29-pearl.jpg 655w, https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/may29-pearl-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, This Pearl of the Day reminds me of what I felt while reading the Acts 15 council discussion yesterday morning. \u00a0As we read, I could feel myself being drawn into the conversation of the council members while imagining that I was sitting among them feeling the tension and suspense.\u00a0 When the main discussion was [&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-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454"}],"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=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}