{"id":4544,"date":"2016-08-31T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2016-08-31T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:40:20","slug":"there-will-be-no-naked-jesus-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"There will be no &#8216;Naked Jesus&#8217; around here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like most people, you haven&#8217;t any difficulty understanding that a sermon series entitled &#8216;Naked Jesus&#8217; is intended to convey that the sermons will introduce you to the <i>r-e-e-e-a-l<\/i> Jesus, Jesus without affectation or pretense &#8212; that the pastor is seeking a clever way of saying &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be telling you who Jesus really was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that sort of subtlety goes right over the head of some people.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Church\u2019s \u2018Naked Jesus\u2019 banner torn down in front of pastor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hRU7I3mMCU\">https:\/\/t.co\/hRU7I3mMCU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religion News (@religionnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/religionnews\/status\/770905479140835328\">August 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The banner was about 4 foot by 6 foot. It was blue and had &#8220;Naked Jesus&#8221; on it. It just had the dates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stone thinks someone took the two words literally.<\/p>\n<p>He said one man stood next to it Monday afternoon outraged and fuming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the moral of today&#8217;s sermon is &#8230; K.I.S.S.  We&#8217;re talking about people who believe in talking snakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like most people, you haven&#8217;t any difficulty understanding that a sermon series entitled &#8216;Naked Jesus&#8217; is intended to convey that the sermons will introduce you to the r-e-e-e-a-l Jesus, Jesus without affectation or pretense &#8212; that the pastor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4544\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}