{"id":2408,"date":"2013-10-01T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2013-09-28T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:51:13","slug":"bible-studies-are-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"THE BIBLE IS BORING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familychristian.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95\/1\/4\/1402018.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>When pastor Todd Putney convened an enthusiastic community discussion of\u00a0<em>The Shack<\/em>, it didn&#8217;t go as he had hoped. &#8220;I thought that book would be a bridge to the God of the Scriptures, but it wasn&#8217;t. No one wanted to go there. They preferred the story and the god of\u00a0<em>The Shack<\/em>\u00a0over the God of the Scriptures.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elegant writing coupled with crucial insights in this article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/july-august\/the-gospel-is-more-than-a-story.html?paging=off\">http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/july-august\/the-gospel-is-more-than-a-story.html?paging=off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pastor Todd Putney convened an enthusiastic community discussion of\u00a0The Shack, it didn&#8217;t go as he had hoped. &#8220;I thought that book would be a bridge to the God of the Scriptures, but it wasn&#8217;t. No one wanted to go there. They preferred the story and the god of\u00a0The Shack\u00a0over the God of the Scriptures.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,65,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading","category-story","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}