{"id":916,"date":"2011-09-19T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/2011\/09\/ephesians.html"},"modified":"2012-06-22T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:50:58","slug":"ephesians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2011\/09\/ephesians.html","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a student tonight and invited him to out bible study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I\u2019m already going to a bible study tonight\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Oh Cool, With your church?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cNaw, there is one with a family, they come to our church sometimes, have you heard of the Truth Project?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Dobson?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cYeah.. It\u2019s like a video series. What are you studying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Have you heard of \u201cEphesians\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">::laughing:: \u201cYeah\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u2026It\u2019s not a video series\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">We need to grow up. Call me old fashioned but I think at the point where milky evangelical videos are actively being used as an excuse for christians not to study the bible they can no longer be counted as \u201c\u00a0positive\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a student tonight and invited him to out bible study. \u201cOh, I\u2019m already going to a bible study tonight\u201d Oh Cool, With your church? \u201cNaw, there is one with a family, they come to our church sometimes, have you heard of the Truth Project?\u201d Dobson? \u201cYeah.. 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