{"id":8656,"date":"2023-07-06T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","slug":"contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8656","title":{"rendered":"CONTAMINATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I started preaching on a weekly basis, my personal Bible study time had reached new levels of depth. I was making big connections between various strands of theology at the same time I was starting to notice important things that seemed to be outside the major concerns of any systematic theology I was familiar with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My time in Scripture was something I looked forward to every morning. My day just seemed off on the rare occasions I allowed it to be squeezed out of my schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now my Bible study experience has changed and I am trying to figure out how to spend time daily on sermon prep without that being my only time in Scripture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no idea what other preachers experience, but I know for me there is something corrupting about the anticipation of presenting on Sunday to other people whatever it is that I might gain from my study this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The approaching sermon can&#8217;t help but contaminate my thinking and my motivation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I am not sure how to overcome that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it needs to change because I miss what I had before.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started preaching on a weekly basis, my personal Bible study time had reached new levels of depth. I was making big connections between various strands of theology at the same time I was starting to notice important things that seemed to be outside the major concerns of any systematic theology I was familiar [&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-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","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=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}