{"id":1432,"date":"2010-07-17T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:57:00","slug":"preach-the-word-as-though-it-were-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Preach the Word as Though It Were Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good exhortation from Doug Wilson as we prepare to preach the Word tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=heb+4%3A12-13\">Heb 4:12-13<\/a>, Wilson writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;preachers need to learn to preach as though this is what is happening.\u00a0 First, we must handle the Word like a sword.\u00a0 And secondly, we must learn to handle the Word as though it were alive and has a mind of its own- because it does.&#8221;\u009d (from the chapter, &#8220;Thundering the Word,&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591280613?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1591280613\">A Primer on Worship and Reformation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"egatgnsimdguhfetnfnf\" 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=1591280613\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, p. 41)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good exhortation from Doug Wilson as we prepare to preach the Word tomorrow. Speaking of Heb 4:12-13, Wilson writes: &#8220;&#8230;preachers need to learn to preach as though this is what is happening.\u00a0 First, we must handle the Word like a sword.\u00a0 And secondly, we must learn to handle the Word as though &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Preach the Word as Though It Were Alive&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2778,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}