{"id":23047,"date":"2023-05-10T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23047"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:52:27","slug":"the-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23047","title":{"rendered":"The Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles-2<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Without a doubt, the Energy Crisis is the foremost topic of conversation nowadays. Personally, I\u2019ve felt that the church has had an \u201cenergy crisis\u201d on Sunday morning at Bible Class time and even more are afflicted on Sunday night and Wednesday night. Others run short of energy during a Gospel meeting, when a workday is announced, or when they are asked to teach a Bible class. The fuel shortage relating to energy for <strong>spiritual<\/strong> causes is certainly no new development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It just could be that our national energy shortage is a blessing in disguise. It will hopefully put a check on our ungodly wastefulness; it will jolt us out of a \u201ctake it for granted\u201d attitude toward our daily provisions; it will make us more thankful for what we have; it might even keep some of us at home enough on weekends to worship with the brethren once in a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for, and it was published in the <em>Sentinel, <\/em>weekly bulletin of the Sunset Church of Christ, Carlsbad, New Mexico, of which I was editor. Exact publication date is unknown.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles-2 page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Without a doubt, the Energy Crisis is the foremost topic of conversation nowadays. Personally, I\u2019ve felt that the church has had an \u201cenergy crisis\u201d on Sunday morning at Bible Class&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=23047\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  The Energy Crisis<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,492,167,693,334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attendance","category-teachers","category-tests-of-faith","category-thanks","category-worship-2","wpcat-350-id","wpcat-492-id","wpcat-167-id","wpcat-693-id","wpcat-334-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23048,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions\/23048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}