{"id":5745,"date":"2015-09-08T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:25:42","slug":"5745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5745","title":{"rendered":"TELL A STORY, TELL IT WELL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am writing some smaller &#8220;commentaries&#8221; on the Bible.\u00a0 I recently finished one on Habakkuk titled, <em>God, What on Earth are You Doing?\u00a0<\/em> The following is from my introduction to Genesis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Telling a story well is powerful.\u00a0 Telling a powerful story can be life altering.\u00a0 Even best selling books for the business community<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> know that data alone can be lifeless and so not terribly motivating.\u00a0 Tell a story worth telling and people\u2019s curiosity is piqued.\u00a0 Their imaginations are engaged.\u00a0 They ready for action.\u00a0 The Bible tells a great story so seek to know and communicate it well.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[<strong>1]<\/strong><\/a><strong> You see this throughout Kouzes James M. and Barry Z. Posner, <i>The Leadership Challenge<\/i> 4<sup>th<\/sup> Ed. (San Francisco, CA: John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2007).\u00a0 Also see Tom Morris, <i>The Art of Achievement: Success in Business and in Life<\/i> (New York, NY: MJF Books, 2002), 19-21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> By the way, too many Christians think they know the story of the Bible well.\u00a0 They have sat in church for many years and heard \u201call about Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary, and Paul.\u201d\u00a0 Actually, most only have superficial familiarity with the Bible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing some smaller &#8220;commentaries&#8221; on the Bible.\u00a0 I recently finished one on Habakkuk titled, God, What on Earth are You Doing?\u00a0 The following is from my introduction to Genesis: Telling a story well is powerful.\u00a0 Telling a powerful story can be life altering.\u00a0 Even best selling books for the business community[1] know that [&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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}