{"id":496,"date":"2009-12-28T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2010-01-26T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:54:58","slug":"why-you-should-bring-your-bible-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/why-you-should-bring-your-bible-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Bring Your Bible to Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Dodson has <a href=\"http:\/\/creationproject.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/28\/why-you-should-bring-a-bible-on-sunday\/\">a good post<\/a> that should be passed around on <a href=\"http:\/\/creationproject.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/28\/why-you-should-bring-a-bible-on-sunday\/\">why Christians should bring their Bibles to church<\/a> (assuming they live in a country where they can own a Bible).\u00c2\u00a0 His main points are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. It allows the Bible to make up your mind about meaning, not you make up your own mind about the meaning.<br \/>\n2. It allows you to read the Bible in context.<br \/>\n3. It helps you avoid confusing the medium for the message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some good quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/creationproject.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/28\/why-you-should-bring-a-bible-on-sunday\/\">his piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow the argument of Scripture, not just the argument of the preacher.<\/li>\n<li>When we read in context we get to see the Bible, not in bits and pieces, but as an awe-inspiring whole.<\/li>\n<li>Reading in PowerPoint prevents us from seeing the Bible as complete thoughts that hang together in context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creationproject.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/28\/why-you-should-bring-a-bible-on-sunday\/\">Read the whole thing. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Dodson has a good post that should be passed around on why Christians should bring their Bibles&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/why-you-should-bring-your-bible-to-church\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,23,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}