{"id":430,"date":"2012-09-11T08:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T23:52:28","slug":"reflecting-on-qanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2012\/09\/reflecting-on-qanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on QandA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esv.to\/acts7:57-60\">Acts 7:57-58<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>57 But the studio audience and the panel cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.<br \/>\n58 Then they cast him before a national audience and verbally stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young woman named Catherine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a remarkable hour of television last night on the ABC&#8217;s Q&amp;A program!<\/p>\n<p>Under direct, hostilely-framed questioning from every audience-member, with vituperative, personal attacks from panelists interrupting his answers, Peter Jensen stood out as the most rational, caring, gracious participant the program has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was the way he thanked every questioner regardless of their tone. Perhaps his humility in gently correcting the linguistic premise of one of Jones&#8217;s snide one-liners.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could have just been the stark contrast between his calm, rational, constructive attempts at response, and Deveney&#8217;s repeated, obnoxious content-free interruptions and ad hominem.<\/p>\n<p>The difference in world-views was clear-cut.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, Deveney may have just provided the best pre-evangelistic message possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 7:57-58: 57 But the studio audience and the panel cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. 58 Then they cast him before a national audience and verbally stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young woman named Catherine. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2012\/09\/reflecting-on-qanda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflecting on QandA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-6W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}