{"id":2799,"date":"2021-01-18T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:04","slug":"bumper-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"BUMPER STICKER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0A podcast I listened to over the weekend asserted that for a message to change the world, a long, complicated, rational argument is nowhere near as powerful as a simple bumper sticker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s either\/or. The bumper sticker is an important starting point. To create one, the world-changer must concentrate the essence of his message into a single, memorable sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sentence, then, catches the attention of others, creating enough agreement and\/or curiosity in at least some minds to open the door to a hearing for the longer explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the approach of God Himself when He came to this earth. Jesus&#8217;s bumper sticker was &#8220;The kingdom of God has come near.&#8221; (Mark 1:15)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Which begs a question: if this is the way God chose to frame His message, why don&#8217;t churches and Christians talk about &#8220;the kingdom of God&#8221; more often?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A podcast I listened to over the weekend asserted that for a message to change the world, a long, complicated, rational argument is nowhere near as powerful as a simple bumper sticker.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s either\/or. The bumper sticker is an important starting point. To create one, the world-changer must concentrate the essence [&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-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}