{"id":3494,"date":"2011-06-29T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2011-06-29T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:57:14","slug":"jesus-sting-and-jaci-velasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2011\/06\/jesus-sting-and-jaci-velasquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus, Sting, and Jaci Velasquez"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Marchiano\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">you\u2019ve played Jesus in a couple of movies<\/a> and you get typecasted as our Lord and Savior. What\u2019s an actor to do?<\/p>\n<p>Simple. You play Jesus\u2026.again.<\/p>\n<p>But this time things are set in the 21st century, Jesus works at a diner, and he\u2019s visited by Sting (the wrestler not the singer) and Jaci Velasquez, who\u2019s cars have broken down and have been sent to the diner by a highway patrol officer who is actually Satan.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe a major Hollywood studio didn\u2019t greenlight this project.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called <em>The Encounter<\/em>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DVD Trailer: The Encounter\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMmEt9hbSEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>And in case you don\u2019t believe it\u2019s actually Jesus, he has proof: his driver\u2019s license. 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