{"id":3506,"date":"2010-08-15T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:23:30","slug":"yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/08\/yikes.html","title":{"rendered":"‘The Fire,’ a manipulative sermon…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So manipulative…<\/p>\n

So full of fear…<\/p>\n

So annoying…<\/p>\n

But guilt, fear, and manipulation work well inside church…<\/p>\n

And the thing is… even with all that passion… all that yelling and screaming… all of that self-proclaiming certainty…<\/p>\n

…doesn’t make any of what he’s saying any more true.<\/p>\n

In the end, he still doesn’t know what happens to people after they die. Not for certain.<\/p>\n

Nobody knows what happens.<\/p>\n

We have faith.<\/p>\n

But we don’t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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