{"id":6252,"date":"2024-09-16T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"one-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"ONE BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The early church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.&#8221; &#8211; Randall Terry<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am slowly gaining a new appreciation for &#8211; and even a fascination with &#8211; the Old Testament. If this had happened before I started seminary, maybe I would have pursued a study of Hebrew.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a little embarrassing for this paradigm shift to hit me so late in life and after being in ministry all these years.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My oldest brother, Ryan, told me today that his pastor often says something like, &#8220;There&#8217;s one page in your Bible that you ought to tear out &#8211; it&#8217;s the page between the Old Testament and the New.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all these years I am starting to see the Bible as ONE book.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The early church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.&#8221; &#8211; Randall Terry I am slowly gaining a new appreciation for &#8211; and even a fascination with &#8211; the Old Testament. If this had happened before I started seminary, maybe [&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-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}