{"id":350,"date":"2008-07-14T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:02:00","slug":"reading-the-bible-and-praying-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Bible and Praying in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SHuWpV06KBI\/AAAAAAAAAPM\/NYdpVg5QlHM\/s1600-h\/reading+bible+praying+in+public.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222933829844084754\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SHuWpV06KBI\/AAAAAAAAAPM\/NYdpVg5QlHM\/s200\/reading+bible+praying+in+public.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReading-Praying-Public-Stuart-Olyott%2Fdp%2F0851519725%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1216058705%26sr%3D1-3&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><em>Reading the Bible and Praying in Public<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by Stuart Olyott<br \/>(Banner of Truth, 2008), pb., 22 pp.<\/p>\n<p>This brief little booklet is an excellent tool to help pastors think through how our doctrine should shape these elements of leading public worship. Public reading of scripture has especially fallen on hard times in my circles, and I think this booklet would help many think more carefully about this important practice. Olyott deals with practical issues of reading clearly, not too fast, with the right emphasis, etc. I found this booklet to be encouraging, exciting and refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>These little booklets are accessible (in terms of money and time) and really beneficial. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the Bible and Praying in Public, by Stuart Olyott(Banner of Truth, 2008), pb., 22 pp. This brief little booklet is an excellent tool to help pastors think through how our doctrine should shape these elements of leading public worship. Public reading of scripture has especially fallen on hard times in my circles, and I &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Reading the Bible and Praying in Public&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":[],"tags":[61,135,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}