{"id":663,"date":"2014-12-16T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2014-12-16T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:26:12","slug":"mormons-the-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Mormons &#038; The Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mormons &amp; The Sabbath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone knocked upon my door.<\/p>\n<p>I checked my decency with what I wore.<\/p>\n<p>I opened the door and I peeked out.<\/p>\n<p>Two young men. Mormons without a doubt.<\/p>\n<p>They asked me if I knew the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>I said \u201cNo way\u201d cause I was bored.<\/p>\n<p>They handed me a flyer from their church.<\/p>\n<p>Told me about the meeting there first.<\/p>\n<p>Asked me if I would consider coming.<\/p>\n<p>I said \u201cit sounds like, maybe, a \u00a0fun thing.<\/p>\n<p>Then I asked \u201cIs it on Saturday?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said \u201cNo, it is on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The door had been opened so off I went.<\/p>\n<p>I unloaded it all till I was spent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow come it\u2019s not on the Sabbath?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said \u201cIt is. Sunday is the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said \u201cLast time I looked Sabbath was Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe calendar shows the 7<sup>th<\/sup> day is Saturday\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJews keep Saturday as the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same day Jesus kept as Sabbath.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They told me about how it was changed.<\/p>\n<p>I showed them \u2018the church\u2019 made the change.<\/p>\n<p>Told them they are following the Catholic Church<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The church\u2019 has the authority to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Pope. God\u2019s man on earth.<\/p>\n<p>I told them take it for what it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n<p>I asked for a scripture changing Sabbath to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They couldn\u2019t produce even one to say.<\/p>\n<p>By this time I saw some doubts.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Spirit was working it out.<\/p>\n<p>Looks of confusion crossed their faces.<\/p>\n<p>One bent down and tied his laces.<\/p>\n<p>I said \u201cLook up the answer &amp; we\u2019ll talk some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They never came back to knock at my door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mormons &amp; The Sabbath Someone knocked upon my door. I checked my decency with what I wore. I opened the door and I peeked out. Two young men. Mormons without a doubt. They asked me if I knew the Lord. I said \u201cNo way\u201d cause I was bored. They handed me a flyer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mormons &#038; The Sabbath<\/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":[27,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-life-lessons","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}