{"id":24012,"date":"2020-09-11T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24012"},"modified":"2020-09-11T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:04:35","slug":"the-best-book-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24012","title":{"rendered":"The Best Book of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Gentle-and-Lowly.jpg\"><\/a>The best book of the 21st century is Dane Ortlund\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/gentle-and-lowly-hcj\/\">Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers<\/a><\/em>. The <em>best book of the 21st century\u2014<\/em>that\u2019s saying a lot! Let\u2019s put that in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>R. Bowker LLC, which issues the ISBN numbers used by librarians to track individual titles, says that 3 million books are published annually. So, in the twenty years of the 21st century we\u2019ve had 60 million books published. And Google estimates that 200 million books are currently in circulation. That\u2019s a lot of books.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. Of the 60 million books published in the 21st century, the #1 book is Dane Ortlund\u2019s <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I\u2019m saying that as the author of twenty books in the 21st century. And I wouldn\u2019t put any of my twenty books in the unique category of Ortlund\u2019s <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>What Makes <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em> So Unique and Special?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Shirley and I are reading <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em> together. I asked Shirley for her one-sentence summary. She captures well the unique value of the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Gentle and Lowly <\/em>opens your eyes to learn more about God than you\u2019ve ever known before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 60 million books published in the 21st century, the #1 book is Dane Ortlund\u2019s Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers.<br \/>\nThe post The Best Book of the 21st Century appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[468,1530,3024,3025],"class_list":["post-24012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-book-review","tag-dane-ortlund","tag-gentle-and-lowly","tag-matthew-1128-30","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Gentle-and-Lowly-196x300-2-1.jpg?fit=196%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24019,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions\/24019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}