{"id":54356,"date":"2023-03-09T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54356"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:30:31","slug":"megachurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54356","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t very biblical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A social media acquaintance posted something I want to share here, and then I&#8217;ll offer a brief comment.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the New Testament:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men \u2026 but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.\u201d ~ Matthew 6:5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My friend posted the message along with a picture of Joel Osteen standing before an enormous crowd in the &#8220;church&#8221; he converted from a Houston sports venue. It&#8217;s gawdy and, well, a testament to conspicuous consumption.<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t my kinda house of worship.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Jesus had it right when he instructed us to pray in privately. This sort of glam-worship is a major turnoff &#8230; at least it is to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social media acquaintance posted something I want to share here, and then I&#8217;ll offer a brief comment. It comes from the New Testament: \u201cWhen you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men \u2026 but when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This isn&#8217;t very biblical<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[610,2459,3272],"class_list":["post-54356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-bible","tag-jesus-christ","tag-new-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54357,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54356\/revisions\/54357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}