{"id":425,"date":"2007-03-22T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/03\/22\/on-an-interesting-quote-regarding-dumbed-down-christians\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T05:30:00","slug":"on-an-interesting-quote-regarding-dumbed-down-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/03\/22\/on-an-interesting-quote-regarding-dumbed-down-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"on an interesting quote regarding dumbed down Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Wallace, writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bible.org\/page.php?page_id=4000#P93_32389\">review <\/a>of a book by the apostate Bart Ehrman acknowledges the damage that Ehrman&#8217;s writings can inflict upon the church with this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The intentional dumbing down of the church for the sake of filling more pews will ultimately lead to defection from Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A biblical ministry must make faithful teaching of the whole counsel of God a priority.<\/p>\n<p>[Please note: I don&#8217;t agree with all of Wallace&#8217;s conclusions in this article, just noting this pithy comment.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Wallace, writing a review of a book by the apostate Bart Ehrman acknowledges the damage that Ehrman&#8217;s writings can inflict upon the church with this line: The intentional dumbing down of the church for the sake of filling more pews will ultimately lead to defection from Christ. A biblical ministry must make faithful teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-6R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}