{"id":1587,"date":"2010-08-07T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T10:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:15","slug":"poverty-of-scripture-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Of Scripture Input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Colossians 3: 16a\u00a0and <em><strong>the poverty of Scripture input<\/strong><\/em>. Paul speaks of the word of Christ dwelling in us richly. The phrase word of Christ tells us that the Bible from cover to cover is the Words of Christ. The word\u00a0dwell means to feel at home in. The word richly means abundantly, fully, and overflowing. In a recent survey we are told that most Bible believers spend an average of three minutes a day in the Bible. It is impossible to fulfill this verse only spending this much time in the Bible. We have minimize the need for\u00a0the word in our lives and replaced it with work and pleasure. It is minimized\u00a0at the church house\u00a0and replaced with more singing, movies, performances, plays, and other entertainment. We are now the poorest people spiritually in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from Colossians 3: 16a\u00a0and the poverty of Scripture input. Paul speaks of the word of Christ dwelling in us richly. The phrase word of Christ tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}