{"id":3522,"date":"2011-11-20T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2011-11-20T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T02:17:41","slug":"dear-victorious-praise-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/dear-victorious-praise-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Victorious Praise Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciate your persistence. Actually, &#8216;appreciate&#8217; implies that it&#8217;s worth something to me. Admire? No. <em>Acknowledge<\/em>. That&#8217;s it. I acknowledge your direct-mail dedication to getting me to your Gospel Explosions and whatnot. And I can see that the Muse was with the graphic designer of this latest postcard who cleverly exchanged the zero in &#8216;2011 Big Event&#8217; for a disco ball.<\/p>\n<p>But I have no interest in coming to your church. And when I say no interest, I mean like, the opposite of interest. I would rather <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2157\">do burpees<\/a> for an hour than sit through a Sunday morning in your mega-sanctuary. Moreover, I don&#8217;t wish to donate toward your $6 million project to build a bowling alley, movie theatre, business center, gymnasium, and workout center. Even if I held your same religious beliefs, I&#8217;m not sure I could reconcile how the bowling alley would &#8220;win souls to Christ&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in the event that I give my life over to Jesus, I can&#8217;t imagine that it would be in a church that has a Director of Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Save yourself the stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciate your persistence. Actually, &#8216;appreciate&#8217; implies that it&#8217;s worth something to me. Admire? No. Acknowledge. That&#8217;s it. I acknowledge your direct-mail dedication to getting me to your Gospel Explosions and whatnot. And I can see that the Muse was with the graphic designer of this latest postcard who cleverly exchanged the zero in &#8216;2011 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/dear-victorious-praise-fellowship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Victorious Praise Fellowship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}