{"id":320,"date":"2010-11-09T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2010-11-09T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T15:55:18","slug":"intoxicated-in-church-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Intoxicated in church &#8230; again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is true. I was intoxicated in church &#8230; <br \/>again.  And if you can believe it, God approved. In fact he was responsible for the whole thing. <\/p>\n<p>Okay so maybe my tabloid headline drew you in, but I was. <\/p>\n<p>Possibly I shouldn&#8217;t admit this in such a public manner, but I was intoxicated in church this past Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get drunk on wine, which leads to wild living. Instead, be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5.18). <\/p>\n<p>Okay so now I confess. I wasn&#8217;t drunk on wine or beer, but I was overwhelmed by the presence of God, his sovereignty, patience and goodness specifically. <\/p>\n<p>I was filled with God. Drunk on God if you will. Not to be offensive but that seems to be the writer&#8217;s point. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be controlled by alcohol but be controlled, filled by God. <\/p>\n<p>And I couldn&#8217;t stop the tears for a little while. And that was good also. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is true. I was intoxicated in church &#8230; again. And if you can believe it, God approved. In fact he was responsible for the whole thing. Okay so maybe my tabloid headline drew you in, but I was. Possibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=320\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}