{"id":809,"date":"2011-09-14T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2011-09-14T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:46:18","slug":"eat-this-book-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/eat-this-book-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat This Book, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><strong>Reflections<\/strong><\/em>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Most of us who call ourselves Christian own Bibles. We honor them and believe they are the Word of God. Sometimes we even read them.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/--worship.calvin.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;worship.calvin.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, we should\u00a0<em>listen<\/em>\u00a0to the Word of God and reflect upon it like poetry till it infiltrates the soul.&#8221; &#8211;Skye Jethani<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Now let me at the truth which will refresh my broken mind.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;Mumford &amp; Sons, The Cave<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/eat-this-book-part-2\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections:<br \/> &#8220;Most of us who call ourselves Christian own Bibles. We honor them and believe they are the Word of God. Sometimes we even read them.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/--worship.calvin.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;worship.calvin.edu<\/a> &#8220;The Bible is not a textbook. Nor is it a manual to be studied, mastered, and mechanically applied. Instead, we [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-d3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}