{"id":23783,"date":"2011-01-02T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kevin_deyong-its_not_about_you_even_if_youre_a_student\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:02:29","slug":"kevin_deyong-its_not_about_you_even_if_youre_a_student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23783","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Deyong&#8211;It\u2019s Not About You (Even If You\u2019re a Student)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first sentence of Rick Warren\u2019s The Purpose Driven Life got it right: \u201cIt\u2019s not about you.\u201d\u009d Our reason for being should begin not with our happiness, our ambition, or our giftedness, but with God. We are not the hope of the world. God is.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I\u2019m often puzzled by the advertisements put out by Christian colleges and seminaries. I understand that an advertisement for higher education is going to emphasize what the school can do for you and what the school will equip you to do in the world. That\u2019s fine. The school wants students to enroll; that\u2019s why the advertise. So they are bound to make an appeal to the \u201cyou\u201d\u009d reading the ad. But a little restraint would be nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/2010\/12\/14\/its-not-about-you\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first sentence of Rick Warren\u2019s The Purpose Driven Life got it right: \u201cIt\u2019s not about you.\u201d\u009d Our reason for being should begin not with our happiness, our ambition, or our giftedness, but with God. We are not the hope<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23783\">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":[39,111,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783","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=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}