{"id":1134,"date":"2026-07-04T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:03:02","slug":"please-dont-worship-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/2026\/07\/04\/please-dont-worship-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Don&#8217;t Worship Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/\">BACK TO HOMEPAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In this Near Death Experience account, Claudia Edge talks about her NDE and being subsequently introduced to &#8220;Spirit School,&#8221; a lucid dreaming state in which she has had breathtaking sessions. A favorite, for this writer, is when she meets Jesus:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Having been mostly accustomed to traditional Christian doctrines, she wanted to &#8220;kneel and touch the hem of His garment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead, he started laughing and told her to &#8220;get up. I don&#8217;t want to be worshipped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He had fun talking and joking around with her and reminded her that he is &#8220;her older brother,&#8221; not some exalted Being commanding worship and obedience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;YESSSSS!!!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_3m8sL6rTM?si=KojacP5WGZE01ZZU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/\">BACK TO HOMEPAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACK TO HOMEPAGE &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In this Near Death Experience account, Claudia Edge talks about her NDE and being subsequently introduced to &#8220;Spirit School,&#8221; a lucid dreaming state in which she has had breathtaking sessions. A favorite, for this writer, is when she meets Jesus: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Having been mostly accustomed to traditional Christian doctrines, she wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-church-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofbuvu.org\/PortTownsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}