{"id":1338,"date":"2010-06-04T05:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:23:04","slug":"read-broadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Read Broadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God did not intend that we study our Bibles in a mental vacuum.\u00a0 John Nelson Darby and G. Campbell Morgan both decided that for an extended time they would read only the Bible.\u00a0 They soon discovered that this plan was a mistake.\u00a0 The danger of reading only the Bible is that we do not then really read the Bible.\u00a0 The Bible comes out of an ancient cultural setting.\u00a0 We need the bridges to our own culture that reading more broadly can supply. . . . Our thesis in this study is that all Christians &#8211; especially Christian leaders and communicators &#8211; need to read broadly, deeply, and copiously.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>David L Larsen, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0825430976?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0825430976\">The Company of the Creative<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mztnkzuhnlrmyicmdjfg\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0825430976\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>: A Christian Reader&#8217;s Guide to Great Literature and Its Themes<\/em>, 11-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God did not intend that we study our Bibles in a mental vacuum.\u00a0 John Nelson Darby and G. Campbell Morgan both decided that for an extended time they would read only the Bible.\u00a0 They soon discovered that this plan was a mistake.\u00a0 The danger of reading only the Bible is that we do not then &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Read Broadly&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}