{"id":38525,"date":"2021-09-06T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38525"},"modified":"2021-09-06T03:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:05:48","slug":"rightly-handling-the-word-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38525","title":{"rendered":"Rightly Handling the Word of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Hear What I Hear? This is such a critical question. So many lives I enter in my counseling relationships have been shaped by an understanding of the nature of God that is, quite frankly, not His nature. They cower in fear under the glare of a finger-wagging &ldquo;god&rdquo; who is condemning, exacting, and unapproachable. When they open their Bible to read, or when others open it to speak into their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2021\/09\/06\/rightly-handling-the-word-of-truth\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many lives I enter in my counseling relationships have been shaped by an understanding of the nature of God that is, quite frankly, not His nature. They cower in fear under the glare of a finger-wagging \u201cgod\u201d who is condemning, exacting, and unapproachable. When they open their Bible to read, or when others open it to speak into their lives, they hear something other than the voice of God. Yes, they are God\u2019s words, but they don\u2019t mean to them what He means. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":38527,"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":[279],"tags":[2281,768,230,1054],"class_list":["post-38525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-interpretation","tag-scripture","tag-theology","tag-truth","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\/2021\/09\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38525","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38528,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38525\/revisions\/38528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}