{"id":91,"date":"2009-04-16T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:12:15","slug":"bereans-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Bereans misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught a fiew minutes on the New Day channel with Brad Jersak being interviewed in a discussion about discernment. He pointed out a common misunderstanding about the Bereans as many today who look at developments in faith communities with a skeptic&#8217;s perspective, often criticizing other denominations, considering themselves to be like the Bereans. Brad pointed out that those people aren&#8217;t being Bereans at all because they were commended for testing the words spoken to them with open hearts. That openness to God&#8217;s word coming from &#8220;other&#8221; sources along with the diligence to test it by scripture is what makes them memorable&#8230;I think it&#8217;s about willingness to put in the effort to sort the wheat from the chaff. <\/p>\n<p>God can speak from very unlikely sources and we need not be fearful or cynical in order to protect ourselves. there are many voices out there that aren&#8217;t God but it is possible to discern the difference. My experience is that it takes a steady progression in trust and faith&#8230;putting our weight on sometimes precarious feeling footholds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=116c5aea-65ee-8a34-98a7-18c1d65355c0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught a fiew minutes on the New Day channel with Brad Jersak being interviewed in a discussion about discernment. He pointed out a common misunderstanding about the Bereans as many today who look at developments in faith communities with a skeptic&#8217;s perspective, often criticizing other denominations, considering themselves to be like the Bereans. Brad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bereans misunderstood&#8221;<\/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-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}