{"id":8521,"date":"2019-05-02T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2019-05-02T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T01:12:45","slug":"usa-2019-trends-in-bible-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8521","title":{"rendered":"USA: 2019 Trends in Bible Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Barna Group, April 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Barna examines behaviors and beliefs related to the Bible among American adults, a study conducted in partnership with American Bible Society. In the 2019 \u201cState of the Bible\u201d report, we find encouraging boosts in Bible engagement and that, despite continued skepticism, scripture still impacts the daily lives and beliefs of many Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/state-of-the-bible-2019\/?mc_cid=45bd0eff37&amp;mc_eid=8ceab6c880\"> Read more of the report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb For the seventh consecutive year, Australia is calling the nations of the world to join with them in three days of prayer and fasting for the United States of America, April 30 to May 2. May 2 is America&#8217;s National Day of Prayer. Consider joining Australian brothers and sisters in prayer for their upcoming elections May 18. Watch<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=201&amp;v=__DlqHm6LhA\"> Australian Election Prayer &amp; Fasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Barna Group, April 19, 2019 Each year, Barna examines behaviors and beliefs related to the Bible among American adults, a study conducted in partnership with American Bible Society. In the 2019 \u201cState of the Bible\u201d report, we find encouraging boosts in Bible engagement and that, despite continued skepticism, scripture still impacts the daily lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: 2019 Trends in Bible Engagement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}