{"id":13734,"date":"2016-08-18T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-style\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:31:45","slug":"preaching-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-style\/","title":{"rendered":"PREACHING STYLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In a sermon, Greek and Hebrew are like underwear: they add a lot of support, but you don\u2019t want to let them show.1067<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The story has been told of a young pastor who with great concern and sincerity ended his sermon like this: \u201cAnd now, my friends, if you do not believe these truths, there may be for you grave eschatological consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Afterward a layman went to him and asked, \u201cDid you mean that they would be in danger of hell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cWhy, yes,\u201d the preacher said.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cThen why in the world didn\u2019t you say so?\u201d the layman asked.1068<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sermon, Greek and Hebrew are like underwear: they add a lot of support, but you don\u2019t want to let them show.1067 The story has been told of a young pastor who with great concern and sincerity ended his sermon like this: \u201cAnd now, my friends, if you do not believe these truths, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/preaching-style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PREACHING STYLE&#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-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","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=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}