{"id":991,"date":"2019-07-03T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:22:06","slug":"the-parable-of-the-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Our Spring Canyon speaker, retired Army Chaplain Dan Holcomb, told a very effective parable that I want to share with you. It\u2019s the kind of thing I wish I had written! (I hope you understand that some of my stuff is original, but I\u2019m also standing on the shoulders of others! Dan credits the story to Chuck Swindoll.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Retired Army Chaplain Dan Holcomb at Spring Canyon, Colorado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s Dan\u2019s story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A business owner called his employees together and said, \u201cI\u2019m going away for a while, and I want you all to keep the business going. I\u2019ll be sending emails from time to time to help keep you on track.\u201d When the owner returned a couple years later, the business was in shambles. He asked them, \u201cDidn\u2019t you read my emails?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They replied, \u201cYou bet! In fact, we compiled them into a book, and we have read them all very carefully. In fact, we gather at least once a week to have an email study to discuss them!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The owner was shocked. \u201cDidn\u2019t you do anything I told you to do?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo anything? No, we didn\u2019t do anything, but those were some really fine emails!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well told, Chaplain Dan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Jesus said, ] “But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach.\u201d (Matthew 7.26, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Spring Canyon speaker, retired Army Chaplain Dan Holcomb, told a very effective parable that I want to share with you. It\u2019s the kind of thing I wish I had written! (I hope you understand that some of my stuff is original, but I\u2019m also standing on the shoulders of others! Dan credits the story … Continue reading The Parable of the Emails<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-fZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}