{"id":44131,"date":"2014-05-18T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albert_mohler-why_so_many_churches_hear_so_little_of_the_bible\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T02:02:14","slug":"albert_mohler-why_so_many_churches_hear_so_little_of_the_bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44131","title":{"rendered":"Albert Mohler&#8211;Why So Many Churches Hear So Little of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we start mentally to check out.\u201d\u009d That stunningly clear sentence reflects one of the most amazing, tragic, and lamentable characteristics of contemporary Christianity: an impatience with the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence above comes from Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today in an essay entitled, \u201cYawning at the Word.\u201d\u009d In just a few hundred words, he captures the tragedy of a church increasingly impatient with and resistant to the reading and preaching of the Bible. We may wince when we read him relate his recent experiences, but we also recognize the ring of truth.<\/p>\n<p>Galli was told to cut down on the biblical references in his sermon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2014\/05\/14\/why-so-many-churches-hear-so-little-of-the-bible\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we start mentally to check out.\u201d\u009d That stunningly clear sentence reflects one of the most<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44131\">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":[48,183,437,435,184,439,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44131","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=44131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}