{"id":6383,"date":"2015-08-06T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2015-08-06T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T20:13:35","slug":"bible-study-leading-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":"Bible Study Leading Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, there's a small trend of this rotational Bible Study leading attitude.<\/p>\n<p>When nobody has any comment, the leader(s) would even dare to say: If no one has anything to say, then I will also keep quiet, and we all just wait until the time is up.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, even if the group is made up of children, one doesn't lead in such a way. Secondly, there are quite a few seniors in the group I was attending - This is very disrespectful to them, especially when this guy is about half their ages.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, at that time I was going to response, if asked, \"You're the one leading, you've prepared for it, if you don't have anything to say, what could we say?\"<\/p>\n<p>Now, I would just respond: Who says one must make a comment?<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: This attitude arises out of pride and ignorance. Pride, because the leader believed that his time is more precious than others - that he could waste everyone else's time. Ignorance, because he does not care about the spiritual nourishment of the group, he's only here because he was asked to, nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, there's a small trend of this rotational Bible Study leading attitude. When nobody has any comment, the leader(s) would even dare to say: If no one has anything to say, then I will also keep quiet, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6383\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","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=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}