{"id":15800,"date":"2017-08-16T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=15800"},"modified":"2017-08-21T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:01:52","slug":"challenging-times-chris-pratt-says-jesus-christ-lord-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/08\/challenging-times-chris-pratt-says-jesus-christ-lord-savior\/","title":{"rendered":"In Challenging Times, Chris Pratt Says Jesus Christ is His Lord and Savior"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15801\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-16-at-11.42.42-AM-e1502901813639.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-08-16 at 11.42.42 AM\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/p>\n<p>When Chris Pratt accepted the \u201cChoice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi\u201d award during the Teen Choice Awards, he said, \u201cI would not be here with the ease and grace I have in my heart without my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Watch it below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6MnWQ9q-Mpw?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sadly, some people are being mean to him, because he and his wife\u00a0Anna Faris announced via Facebook recently that they\u2019re separating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPrattPrattPratt%2Fposts%2F1628052550559901&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anna and I are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we\u2019re really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward. We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for one another.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pratt and Anna Faris<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, people got upset at this, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2017\/08\/15\/to-all-the-christians-slamming-chris-pratt-for-invoking-jesus-after-his-separation\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">FaithWire<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not everyone was happy to hear him invoke Christ, as some lashed out on social media, acting as though his separation announcement a few days before somehow precluded him from speaking about Jesus. People responded by questioning Pratt\u2019s devotion to his family, saying he was making his wife a sinner by divorcing her (again, they announced\u00a0<em>a separation, not a divorce<\/em>) and taking other opportunities to critique him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope Chris and Anna work things out and live happily ever after, but I also hope that people can stop criticizing them. People struggle with life. \u00a0I have. \u00a0You have. \u00a0Those struggles don\u2019t somehow prove that the gospel is wrong. \u00a0It proves we need it more than ever. \u00a0I love hearing Chris speak out about his faith, even in hard times.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Especially in hard times.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Chris, for the reminder.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gospel is good news for people who are struggling&#8230; and for those who currently aren&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Challenging 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