{"id":1393,"date":"2009-11-07T21:09:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T01:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2009-11-07T21:09:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T01:09:52","slug":"get-god-and-get-rich-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/get-god-and-get-rich-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Get God and Get Rich Quick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWouldn’t it be cool if God was a genie, and if you rubbed him the right way you could get your wildest dreams to come true?<\/p>\n

Or maybe he could be like the Lotto, and you could hit the Jackpot with him, and a windfall of goodies could come your way, with no trouble at all.<\/p>\n

Or God could be like a butler with supernatural body toning and skin enhancing skills to\u00a0diminish\u00a0the signs of aging and flabbiness.<\/p>\n

Ah, God, the big vending machine in the sky…<\/p>\n

Except-God asks us to be familiar in relationship to him like a spouse. He calls us his “Beloved.” Hum… conundrum…<\/p>\n

Is the Get God-Get Rich idea perhaps a bit immature? Near-sighted?<\/p>\n

Anyway, God is a Being described as a Person, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n

A friend of mine, Jon Acuff, has a hilarious post called “Secretly Believing in the Prosperity Gospel<\/a>.” You’ll laugh out loud if you read it. His book, “Stuff Christians Like” is a great commentary on Christian sub-culture that will have you laughing non stop! (Especially if you were ever a preacher’s kid!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God the genie, Jon Acuff, and the prosperity gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[378,532,1044,1204,1425,1433,1472,1598,6538,1801,1822,41,1875,2076,2248,2712,3079,6539,3275,3430,3588,3657,90,91],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-belief","tag-butler","tag-dreams-come-true","tag-faith","tag-genie","tag-get-rich-quick","tag-god","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-intimacy","tag-jackpot","tag-jesus","tag-jon-acuff","tag-lotto","tag-money","tag-prosperity-gospel","tag-sickness","tag-spirituality","tag-stuff-christians-like","tag-thoughts-on-god","tag-vending-machine-god","tag-wealth","tag-worldviews","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}