{"id":2348,"date":"2024-04-17T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:25","slug":"ritual-then-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"RITUAL, THEN DISCIPLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently came across Dr. Michael Heiser for the first time. I am just starting to explore his material but what I have seen so far has been top-notch.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of his emphases is on moving beyond personal &#8220;Bible reading&#8221; to &#8220;Bible study&#8221;. Heiser rightly points out they are not the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his compact book <i>Brief Insights on Mastering Bible Study<\/i>, the author entitles his 4th chapter &#8220;Bible Study is a Discipline, Not a Ritual Event&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiFzStLOhj4kT-LMI2PLE0Aumx13WadY1FNBbElRoPSXT16v730dtKWv14FXWrVISbP-MVWmFIigyY1KUvYlNH9gT3x9zJj_r4eS0tPIBFFhYgKpDpVtDvULTtRArWavjm7txJRE62rryL25tFEIQiqtV6ZbqTRPu5wK3oOAuk4UD0CDo28jqC9piKTigA\/w640-h230\/Heiser%20Bible%20Study%20Quote.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"174\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across Dr. Michael Heiser for the first time. I am just starting to explore his material but what I have seen so far has been top-notch. One of his emphases is on moving beyond personal &#8220;Bible reading&#8221; to &#8220;Bible study&#8221;. Heiser rightly points out they are not the same thing. In his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","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=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}