{"id":2283,"date":"2023-05-31T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:10","slug":"daily-bible-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"DAILY BIBLE READING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">T. David Gordon writes the following in <i>Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Preach<\/i>:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Many Christians will read their Bibles daily for fifty years, and not have one opinion that changes in the entire fifty-year span. Texts do not change or alter or skew their perspective; texts do not move them or shape them; they merely use them as mnemonic devices to recall what they already know.&#8221; (49)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of those quotes where I am inclined to agree but hope that I am being overly pessimistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do think it is true that most Christians don&#8217;t read and study Scripture enough at home to determine their own understanding of the message but instead appropriate bits and pieces from the &#8220;experts&#8221; and from their denomination&#8217;s formalized statements of faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T. David Gordon writes the following in Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Preach: &#8220;Many Christians will read their Bibles daily for fifty years, and not have one opinion that changes in the entire fifty-year span. Texts do not change or alter or skew their perspective; texts do not move them or shape them; they merely use them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}