{"id":21221,"date":"2010-08-11T21:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/whitney_t-_kuniholm_pleads_for_biblical_engagement\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T21:28:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:28:29","slug":"whitney_t-_kuniholm_pleads_for_biblical_engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21221","title":{"rendered":"Whitney T. Kuniholm Pleads for Biblical Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that Bible reading is decreasing; the research on that is clear. But is the solution to learn more about the Bible? I agree, it doesn\u2019t look good if a high percentage of church-goers believe the Sermon on the Mount was a message Jesus delivered on horseback. Or that most people can name all four Beatles but not one of the twelve Apostles.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems to me the real issue is not that Christians need to bone up on their Bible factoids. Rather, it\u2019s that Christians need to discover what Bible engagement is; that\u2019s what\u2019s missing in the church today. The question is, what exactly is Bible engagement?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.essentialbibleblog.com\/2010\/08\/biblical-illiteracy-is-not-problem.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that Bible reading is decreasing; the research on that is clear. But is the solution to learn more about the Bible? I agree, it doesn\u2019t look good if a high percentage of church-goers believe the Sermon on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21221\">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":[39,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221","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=21221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}