{"id":13199,"date":"2020-08-01T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:41:56","slug":"book-review-walking-from-east-to-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=13199","title":{"rendered":"Book Review | Walking from East to West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.test\/content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/51uc9aJlEuL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/51uc9aJlEuL.jpg 353w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/51uc9aJlEuL-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walking-East-West-God-Shadows\/dp\/0310324963\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YMER5RUN3981&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=walking+from+east+to+west+by+ravi+zacharias&amp;qid=1596317958&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=walking+from+east%2Cstripbooks%2C217&amp;sr=1-1\">Walking from East to West<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rzim.org\/speakers\/ravi-zacharias\">Ravi Zacharias<\/a> is one of my favorite books of the summer.  He has a powerful testimony of God&#8217;s grace towards and through him.  When he passed away this summer, I was captivated by the entirety of his 2 hour memorial.  What a life&#8230;what a Savior!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apologetics is not just giving answers to questions\u2014it is questioning people\u2019s answers, and even questioning their questions. &nbsp;When you question someone\u2019s question, you compel him or her to open up about his or her own assumptions. &nbsp;Our assumptions must be examined. p. 204\n<\/li><li>If you\u2019re predictable in your approach\u2014if your listeners know where you\u2019re going\u2014they will turn you off. &nbsp;If you hand people outlines, they\u2019re already ahead of you, just filling in blanks. &nbsp;If you tell them they need love, they already know that. &nbsp;The task is to find the means to stretch their thinking in unpredictable ways, to take them in directions they are not expecting to go. &nbsp;Sometimes it is though an argument, sometimes through an illustration, sometimes through a stretch of the imagination. &nbsp;But you\u2019ve got to take them in a radius of directions, like the spokes of a wheel. &nbsp;That is an Easterner\u2019s natural way of thinking, while the typical Westerner\u2019s way is more linear. p. 204\n<\/li><li>The lines have become clearly drawn, and it is up to the thinking Christian to train the mind, take seriously the questioner, and respond with intelligence and relevance. p. 210\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking from East to West by Ravi Zacharias is one of my favorite books of the summer. He has a powerful testimony of God&#8217;s grace towards and through him. When he passed away this summer, I was captivated by the entirety of his 2 hour memorial. What a life&#8230;what a Savior! Apologetics is not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,25,16,19,23,28,17,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-education","category-family","category-funny","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-leadership","category-marriage","category-truth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/51uc9aJlEuL.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}