{"id":27,"date":"2008-04-25T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/archives\/27"},"modified":"2008-04-25T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:36:15","slug":"cellphones-and-bibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/archives\/27","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phones and Bibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I wonder what would happen if<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we flipped through it several times a day?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we used it to receive messages from the text?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we treated it like we couldn&#8217;t live without it?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we gave it to kids as gifts?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we used it when we traveled?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if we used it in case of emergency?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, and one more thing: Unlike our cell phone, we don&#8217;t have to worry<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">about being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; border: #000000 2px solid; padding: 0.05cm;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This thought was published in the May 2008 issue of <em>The Faith Walk<\/em>, a newsletter from the Faith Presbyterian Church in Findlay, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone. What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets? What if we flipped through it several times a day? What if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/archives\/27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-youve-often-thought-but-were-afraid-to-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}