{"id":13406,"date":"2016-08-18T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/communication-clarity-in\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:25:12","slug":"communication-clarity-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/communication-clarity-in\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNICATION, CLARITY IN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>If Jesus came to certain theological schools today and asked the professors, \u201cAnd you, who do you think I am?\u201d what do you think they might reply?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Some might answer, \u201cYou are the eschatological manifestation of the kerygma in which we recognize the ultimate significance of our interpersonal relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And Jesus would probably say, \u201cWhat?!\u201d224<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cThe difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug\u201d (Mark Twain).225<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A stranger was walking down a residential street and noticed a man struggling with a washing machine at the doorway of his house. When the newcomer volunteered to help, the homeowner was overjoyed, and the two men together began to work and struggle with the bulky appliance. After several minutes of fruitless effort the two stopped and just stared at each other in frustration. They looked as if they were on the verge of total exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Finally, when they had caught their breath, the first man said to the homeowner: \u201cWe\u2019ll never get this washing machine in there!\u201d To which the homeowner replied: \u201cIn? I\u2019m trying to move it out of here!\u201d226<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Jesus came to certain theological schools today and asked the professors, \u201cAnd you, who do you think I am?\u201d what do you think they might reply? Some might answer, \u201cYou are the eschatological manifestation of the kerygma in which we recognize the ultimate significance of our interpersonal relations.\u201d And Jesus would probably say, \u201cWhat?!\u201d224 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/communication-clarity-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COMMUNICATION, CLARITY IN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}