{"id":1454,"date":"2020-03-27T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:24:43","slug":"another-drums-and-theology-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Another Drums and Theology Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was listening to an “Ask NT Wright Anything<\/a>” podcast yesterday, and he mentioned he used only one Bible. In an effort to become really familiar with “the text” he has chosen to use one Bible, and so in that one Bible are all his notes, and that’s the one Bible he uses all the time. A former pastor of mine also had one Bible that he always used. It was falling apart so badly his small group bought him a new Bible. They knew how much he loved his old Bible, so they bought him the exact same kind of Bible that he had–so it was the same Bible, only a new version of it. He didn’t use it; he continued to use the old falling apart Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a musician, I’ve always wanted to have a relationship with one instrument. I see it a lot with guitar players. Eric Clapton had Blackie<\/a>, and Eric Johnson has Virginia<\/a>, Stevie Ray Vaughan had Number 1<\/a>. Stewart Copeland had his Pearl Jupiter snare<\/a> that was used on all The Police recordings, and Ringo had his Jazz Festival<\/a>. I’m not that way. I have a whole bunch of drums, and I use whatever drum fits the music and my mood. A drum I use to record a folk record won’t be the same drum I use to record a funk tune. I pick the drum that’s right for the job. It’s a tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m the same way with Bible translations. My “study” translation is the New American Standard<\/a>. My current devotion Bible is the ESV<\/a>. If I were called to read scripture out loud to a group, I’d probably grab the New Living Bible<\/a>. It’s a tool, and I pick the right tool for the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still though, I wish I was “a person of one book” (from my Ortberg reading this morning). I wish I was the kind of guy like Mr. Wright or Pastor Jason that had just one Bible. There’s a romance about it. I have one wife, can’t I have just one Bible? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was listening to an “Ask NT Wright Anything” podcast yesterday, and he mentioned he used only one Bible. In an effort to become really familiar with “the text” he has chosen to use one Bible, and so in that one Bible are all his notes, and that’s the one Bible he uses all the … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-brhythm","post-1454","format-standard","category-christianity","category-music-and-drumming","category-sf100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}