{"id":33978,"date":"2022-09-10T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-express-service\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:10:13","slug":"and-finally-express-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-express-service\/","title":{"rendered":"And Finally: Express Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This must be what they call &#8220;express service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Lutheran pastor from Butte, Mont., delivered a 1-minute service a week ago so he could go watch the NFC Divisional Playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would you all like to be forgiven for your sins?&#8221; Pastor Tim Christensen of Gold Hill Lutheran Church asks the congregation, captured on a Youtube video of the sermon. The people answer yes; and he tells them, &#8220;OK, you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a Jan. 13, 2014, <em>Christian Post<\/em> story, Pastor Tim referenced Communion, by saying: &#8220;There is some bread, and some wine up here on the table. You feel free to help yourself if you&#8217;d like, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em> story reported, &#8220;Christensen ends the service by revealing his 49ers shirt under his vestments, and walking off camera, presumably to watch the game&#8212;which the 49ers won 23-10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/and-finally-express-service\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This must be what they call &#8220;express service.&#8221; A Lutheran pastor from Butte, Mont., delivered a 1-minute service a week ago so he could go watch the NFC Divisional Playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers. &#8220;Would you all like to be forgiven for your sins?&#8221; Pastor Tim Christensen of Gold Hill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/and-finally-express-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And Finally: Express Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}