{"id":2545,"date":"2019-03-31T12:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2019-04-01T00:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T05:54:37","slug":"the-tax-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"The Tax Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Tax Man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What comes to mind when you hear the word \u201cchurch\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you picture a happy place or a somber gathering?&nbsp; Do you see steeples and stained glass or modern architecture?&nbsp; Maybe you think of classic hymns sung by a choir or you hear eclectic guitars and drums.&nbsp; Churches can look, sound, and feel very different whether you\u2019re comparing them from around the world or even from different places in the same town.&nbsp; We love our habits and traditions and personal style.  Sometimes we even let them define who we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what does Jesus see when he looks at the people who make up the church?  The answer to that might be found in an encounter that Jesus had with a certain tax collector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190331AM-TheTaxMan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2545-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/190331AM-TheTaxMan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"190331AM-TheTaxMan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 38:25 &#8212; 41.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax Man What comes to mind when you hear the word \u201cchurch\u201d? Do you picture a happy place or a somber gathering?&nbsp; Do you see steeples and stained glass or modern architecture?&nbsp; Maybe you think of classic hymns sung by a choir or you hear eclectic guitars and drums.&nbsp; Churches can look, sound, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,13,148,12],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-body-of-christ","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-church"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}