{"id":76,"date":"2001-08-20T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2001-08-21T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=64"},"modified":"2001-08-20T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2001-08-21T01:32:11","slug":"coming-out-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/76\/coming-out-of-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Out of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brother John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">When we first started talking about loving God\u2019s hurting people coming out of Christianity, I knew it would be wonderful, but I did not know how it would feel to be there to hold them, cry with them, laugh with them and tell them, \u201cYou have a new past, a brand new past, you can start all over, just think about it\u201d. I had a touch of that this past weekend and I loved it! It felt so good to every person I said those words to; IT EVEN FELT BRAND NEW TO ME!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I am so happy to think about the walls of Christianity falling down, because when that happens, all those hurting people are going to need lots of love and God has put that love in our hearts for them. I feel like I want to open up my chest and say to every hurting heart, \u201clook, look right in here and feel God\u2019s love for you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank God that He is allowing us to be a part of the healing sent to His people! AMEN!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">With much love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> Sister Sheila<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> Wonderful, Sheila. I felt the same way.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em> jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother John, When we first started talking about loving God\u2019s hurting people coming out of Christianity, I knew it would be wonderful, but I did not know how it would feel to be there to hold them, cry with them, laugh with them and tell them, \u201cYou have a new past, a brand new past, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}