{"id":4863,"date":"2014-05-04T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2014-05-04T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T19:33:29","slug":"ruth-bell-graham-the-other-kind-of-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Bell Graham - The other kind of Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard Tim Keller preached on different conversions (a dramatic one and the one that seems to flow naturally in a Christian home like that of Ruth Bell's.)<\/p>\n<p>I have heard Samuel Ling taught on the same issue, even using the same example of Ruth Graham.<\/p>\n<p>I understand there is no need for drama in a person's conversion, like the Charismatics or many evangelicals would have us believe, however, the language used on Ruth Bell's redemption raises suspicion on my part.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithinwriting.com\/Tradition\/Family\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">it <\/a>raises questions by me. How did Ruth see herself as a sinner or as enemy of God, as scripture ascribed?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps, this is only to silence the drama queens of personal conversions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I heard Tim Keller preached on different conversions (a dramatic one and the one that seems to flow naturally in a Christian home like that of Ruth Bell's.) I have heard Samuel Ling taught on the same issue, even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}