{"id":6438,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/honk-if-you-love-jesus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:19","slug":"honk-if-you-love-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/honk-if-you-love-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Honk If You Love Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of a Southern Baptist preacher talks to her Sunday School class about a wonderful religious experience that she had last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other day I went up to the local Christian book store where I saw a &#8216;Honk if you love Jesus&#8217; bumper sticker.  I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance at the church.  I then bought that bumper sticker and put it on the back bumper of my car.  I&#8217;m really glad that I did.  What followed was a truly uplifting experience .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was stopped at the light of a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord, and I did not notice that the light had changed.  It&#8217;s a good thing someone else loves Jesus or I may have never noticed that the light had changed.  I found that lots of people love Jesus.  Why the guy behind me started to honk like crazy and then he leaned out his window and screamed, &#8220;For the love of GOD, Go!&#8230;  Go!  Jesus Christ!  Go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone was honking.  I leaned out my window and waved and smiled to all those loving people and I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There must have been a man from Florida back there because I could hear him yelling something about a sunny beach.  I saw another guy waving a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.  When I asked my teenager son in the back seat what this meant, he said that it was nothing, probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.  Well, I have never met a person from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back.  My son burst into laughter.  Why even he was enjoying the love of this religious experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their car and were walking towards me.  I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but that is when I noticed that the light had changed.  I waved one more time to my loving brothers and sisters and drove through the intersection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was the only car that got across the intersection before the light changed again.  I felt kind of bad that I had to leave them and all that love that we had shared.  So, I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one more time as I drove away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Praise the Lord for such a wonderful experience.  Honk if you love Jesus!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of a Southern Baptist preacher talks to her Sunday School class about a wonderful religious experience that she had last week. &#8220;The other day I went up to the local Christian book store where I saw a &#8216;Honk if you love Jesus&#8217; bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1797,1799,1790,1157,1798],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}