{"id":51130,"date":"2015-08-09T00:34:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bilbe_society_aus-_read_the_bible_with_miroslav_volf\/"},"modified":"2015-08-09T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T00:34:18","slug":"bilbe_society_aus-_read_the_bible_with_miroslav_volf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51130","title":{"rendered":"(Bible Society Aus.) Read the Bible with\u201d\u00a6 Miroslav Volf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What advice would you give someone struggling to read the Bible each day?<\/p>\n<p>I struggle to read Bible each day, and I often fail. My advice to myself? Neither your human worth nor your salvation lies in your accomplishments or failures. Both are a gift.<br \/>\nSeek to be close to God\u201d\u201dthe source and the goal of your life; seek to learn more about Jesus Christ,\u201d\u201dthe Word made flesh and the prime exemplar of humanity. If you do, the Bible reading will take care of itself. <b>And don\u2019t read just to read and to have read. Read to be read, to have the Bible read you to yourself so that you can come to know yourself and be transformed<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblesociety.org.au\/news\/read-the-bible-with-miroslav-volf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What advice would you give someone struggling to read the Bible each day? I struggle to read Bible each day, and I often fail. My advice to myself? Neither your human worth nor your salvation lies in your accomplishments or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51130\">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":[34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130","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=51130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}