{"id":44773,"date":"2022-10-01T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/isnt-it-strange-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:30:10","slug":"isnt-it-strange-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/isnt-it-strange-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#039;t It Strange? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following questions may sound <strong>&#8220;strange&#8221;<\/strong>, but are they really? Let&#8217;s seriously think about these questions and take action to correct our thinking if we are guilty of any of these:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how a twenty dollar bill seems like such a large amount when we give to the work of the church, but such a small amount when we go shopping?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how two hours seem so long when we are at church services, and how short they seem when we are watching a good movie?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange that we can&#8217;t find a word to say when we are praying, but we have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bible, but how easy it is to read one hundred pages of a popular novel?<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games, but they do whatever is possible to sit on the last row in the church building?<\/p>\n<p><strong>6)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how we need to know about a church event two to three weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust our schedule for other events in the last minute?<\/p>\n<p><strong>7)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange that we can drive hundreds of miles to a sporting event in inclement weather but we&#8217;ll miss church services because of inclement weather?<\/p>\n<p><strong>8)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange that we can get to a sale or sporting event twenty-four hours in advance (stay in line outside in inclement weather) but we can&#8217;t make it to church services on time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>9)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip?<\/p>\n<p><strong>10)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how we share jokes that we hear right away, but when we are sharing messages about God, we think about it twice before we share it with others?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say, but we question the words in the Bible?<\/p>\n<p><strong>12)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don&#8217;t want to believe, do or say anything to get there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Strange, Isn&#8217;t It?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following questions may sound &#8220;strange&#8221;, but are they really? Let&#8217;s seriously think about these questions and take action to correct our thinking if we are guilty of any of these: 1) Isn&#8217;t it strange how a twenty dollar bill seems like such a large amount when we give to the work of the church, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/isnt-it-strange-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Isn&#039;t It Strange? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44773","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=44773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}