{"id":270248,"date":"2013-07-04T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/i-went-to-church-with-my-family-tonight-and-the\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:32:51","slug":"i-went-to-church-with-my-family-tonight-and-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/i-went-to-church-with-my-family-tonight-and-the\/","title":{"rendered":"I went to church with my family tonight and the pastor said something that I think every Christian should hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor: Now, according to a few passages in the bible, homosexuality is a sin.<br \/>\nCouple of older males in the audience: Amen!<br \/>\nPastor: Now, wait, I&#8217;m not finished.<br \/>\nPastor: You know what else the bible defines as a sin? Divorce.<br \/>\n-uncomfortable silence-<br \/>\nPastor: There are countless passages that talk about how divorce is wrong, and that there are consequences to getting a divorce, such as the wife should be stoned.<br \/>\nPastor: Yet, I witnessed a divorce just this morning. And I gotta tell you, it was heartbreaking, but I definitely didn&#8217;t attempt to throw rocks at the wife, even though she was the one who filed for divorce.<br \/>\nPastor: We choose to overlook the consequences of divorce because time has proven that they&#8217;re inhumane and cruel.<br \/>\nPastor: The bible doesn&#8217;t say anything about the consequences of a homosexual lifestyle. Yet, we seem to be spearheading a campaign to ruin the lives of people we don&#8217;t even know.<br \/>\n-the pastor shifts a few notes around-<br \/>\nPastor: The bible states to love thy neighbor. That&#8217;s it. There are no other rules or restrictions to that passage.<br \/>\nPastor: So, we as a church family have to support equality with a smile on our face. THAT is the true Christian way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor: Now, according to a few passages in the bible, homosexuality is a sin. Couple of older males in the audience: Amen! Pastor: Now, wait, I&#8217;m not finished. Pastor: You know what else the bible defines as a sin? Divorce. -uncomfortable silence- Pastor: There are countless passages that talk about how divorce is wrong, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/04\/i-went-to-church-with-my-family-tonight-and-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I went to church with my family tonight and the pastor said something that I think every Christian should hear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}