{"id":4029,"date":"2016-03-15T03:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2016-03-15T03:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:30:51","slug":"introduced-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/15\/introduced-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduced to Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sunday, I was introduced to the church where my wife started attending while I was in prison and the almost four years since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been attending a Men&#8217;s accountability group sponsored by a pastor from that church since being released from prison in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It went better than I could have hoped, at least from what I could see.\u00a0 About a dozen people came up after the service and welcomed me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hard to say if and how much behind the scenes backlash there will be.\u00a0 But I get the feeling this is a group of real practicing Christians, that is to say people actually living Gods word instead of just spouting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I feel like God has found me and now brought me back to the flock.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t express the joy I felt after this.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sunday, I was introduced to the church where my wife started attending while I was in prison and the almost four years since. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been attending a Men&#8217;s accountability group sponsored by a pastor from that church since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/15\/introduced-to-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}