{"id":8271,"date":"2011-06-15T08:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2011-06-15T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:52:13","slug":"nt-wright-on-how-to-read-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nt-wright-on-how-to-read-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"NT Wright on how to read Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8272\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelfordjames\/3035901465\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/nt-wright-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"NT Wright\" title=\"NT Wright\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/nt-wright-500x334.jpg 500w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/nt-wright-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/nt-wright.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NT Wright at Park Street Church | Photo by Rachel Ford James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altervideomagazine.com\/2011\/06\/10\/the-whole-sweep-of-scripture\/\">The Work of the People<\/a> shared some recent thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N._T._Wright\">NT Wright<\/a> on how to read the &#8220;whole sweep of Scripture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some really interesting points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24926085?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=cc6633\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think Wright is definitely on to something.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t read letters from our friends by simply pulling out random sentences here or there.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t read novels or books by simply jumping around reading random paragraphs from day to day. We&#8217;d miss the entire flow of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So why do we (I) read Scriptures that way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you read Scriptures on a regular basis?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Work of the People shared some recent thoughts from NT Wright on how to read the &#8220;whole sweep of Scripture.&#8221; Some really interesting points&#8230; I think Wright is definitely on to something. We don&#8217;t read letters from our friends by simply pulling out random sentences here or there. We don&#8217;t read novels or books &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nt-wright-on-how-to-read-scripture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NT Wright on how to read Scripture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[1202,562,4227,11,4228],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-nt-wright","tag-reading","tag-scriptures","tag-video","tag-work-of-the-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/nt-wright.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-29p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}