{"id":12375,"date":"2009-04-20T03:29:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/houston_church_leaders_speak_out_about_bible_listening\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T03:29:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:29:27","slug":"houston_church_leaders_speak_out_about_bible_listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"Houston Church Leaders Speak Out About Bible Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our people have been reading the Bible for years,&#8221; said Dave Peterson, senior pastor at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. &#8220;When we suggested listening to the New Testament many wondered why. But hearing is turning out to be a very different experience from reading. New doors of understanding are opening all over the place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of us have been reading the Bible for many, many years,&#8221; added Dr. Ed Young, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church. &#8220;Listening to God&#8217;s Word, however, can add even greater depth and understanding to our times in the Scripture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Laurens A. Hall, rector at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, said, &#8220;Parishioners are ecstatic about the You&#8217;ve Got The Time format, experiencing the Word of God as they had never done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.prnewswire.com\/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=ind_focus.story&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/04-07-2009\/0005002084&#038;EDATE=\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our people have been reading the Bible for years,&#8221; said Dave Peterson, senior pastor at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. &#8220;When we suggested listening to the New Testament many wondered why. But hearing is turning out to be a very different<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12375\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,184,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}