{"id":5267,"date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2015-02-17T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T07:23:18","slug":"engaging-culture-engaging-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5267","title":{"rendered":"ENGAGING CULTURE, ENGAGING SCRIPTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was talking with a friend the other about the misguided tendency of Christian conferences to have seminars on all kinds of cutting-edge issues coming from the culture.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I think Christians ought to stay abreast of the latest news and be growing in the ability to navigate the various challenges to the gospel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What struck me is how impractical it is to mainly offer issue-oriented seminars rather than helping people to learn how to think theologically in a way that is truly grounded in Scripture. Too few Christians have taken the time to do this.\u00a0 When we do have the patience over the long haul to learn the Christian faith well it gives us a discernment we can\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I read a lot, and I read books on diverse subject matter.\u00a0 However, if I don\u2019t keep meditating, mulling, memorizing, and going deeper in my understanding of God\u2019s Word my discernment in properly engaging culture will be impaired.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with a friend the other about the misguided tendency of Christian conferences to have seminars on all kinds of cutting-edge issues coming from the culture.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I think Christians ought to stay abreast of the latest news and be growing in the ability to navigate the various challenges to [&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":[3,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267","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=5267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5267\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}