{"id":13729,"date":"2018-01-10T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2018-01-10T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:41:08","slug":"because-they-bring-so-much-to-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/10\/because-they-bring-so-much-to-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Because They Bring So Much To The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An age-old tradition continues, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/paula-white-first-fruits_us_5a544603e4b01e1a4b18d2f0?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/paula-white-first-fruits_us_5a544603e4b01e1a4b18d2f0?ncid%3Dedlinkushpmg00000313&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515717158154000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE2oc6-eQnkIQNrjLguLU2ojglrQA\">reported\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0<i><b>HuffPo<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p><a class=\"m_-6021936375626842546gmail-bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/paula-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/paula-white&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515717158154000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-hUg2BwnoJUGA2vdvK8K9SrVRIg\">Paula White<\/a>, a prosperity gospel preacher with close ties to President\u00a0<a class=\"m_-6021936375626842546gmail-bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/donald-trump&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515717158154000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5e_qWn6wAiqN_bKXVZnCi64AkXA\">Donald Trump<\/a>, is calling on followers to send her donations of up to one month\u2019s salary. Those who don\u2019t pay up could face \u201cconsequences\u201d from God as he demands the dough as a \u201cfirst fruits\u201d offering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason is God lays claim to all firsts,\u201d\u00a0White wrote on her website.\u00a0\u201cSo when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God\u00a0<a class=\"m_-6021936375626842546gmail-bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/paulawhite.org\/firstfruits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/paulawhite.org\/firstfruits&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515717158154000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGoCVFyKc7VKXkm_h8UfTgsnCNZUQ\">you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this case,\u00a0the \u201cfirsts\u201d are money, which \u201csupernaturally unlocks amazing opportunity, blessing, favor and divine order for your life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, in other words, God can be bought. Nothing new here, folks, keep moving right along. You&#8217;ll find charlatans like her in every century, all the way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An age-old tradition continues, as\u00a0reported\u00a0on\u00a0HuffPo: Paula White, a prosperity gospel preacher with close ties to President\u00a0Donald Trump, is calling on followers to send her donations of up to one month\u2019s salary. Those who don\u2019t pay up could face \u201cconsequences\u201d from God as he demands the dough as a \u201cfirst fruits\u201d \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/10\/because-they-bring-so-much-to-the-game\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13730,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}