{"id":461,"date":"2015-09-24T04:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2015-09-24T04:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T04:53:02","slug":"dean-jones-and-the-peace-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/dean-jones-and-the-peace-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Jones and the Peace of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Dean Jones, often remembered for his roles in Disney movies such as \u201cHerbie the Love Bug\u201d, has just departed from the scene. <\/p>\n

His story of conversion to Christianity from a Hollywood lifestyle he found to be spiritually empty has been recounted before.<\/p>\n

Yet, after a drunk-driving accident and what the Chicago Sun-Times called \u201can entertainer\u2019s tour\u201d of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, Jones\u2019s outlook changed in the early 1970s. He said he had a \u201cdivine visitation\u201d that gave him \u201ca peace I had never before had but which I had longed for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that if there didn\u2019t come something that changed my life, that I would probably end up a pretty mess at some point or another,\u201d he said in 1997. \u201cAnd the night that I said \u2018yes\u2019 to the lord, it changed instantly. The peace of Christ rolled over me like an ocean wave and I\u2019ve never been the same.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor Dean Jones, often remembered for his roles in Disney movies such as \u201cHerbie the Love Bug\u201d, has just departed from the scene. His story of conversion to Christianity from a Hollywood lifestyle he found to be spiritually empty has been recounted before. Yet, after a drunk-driving accident and what the Chicago Sun-Times called \u201can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-stories","tag-dean-jones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}