{"id":57925,"date":"2023-02-21T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57925"},"modified":"2023-02-21T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:20:08","slug":"more-than-music-how-the-congregation-plays-a-part-in-every-element-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57925","title":{"rendered":"More than Music: How the Congregation Plays a Part in Every Element of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>1 Timothy 3:14-15\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,\u202fif I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Suppose that on Monday morning, you strike up a conversation with Andrew, your Christian coworker. The topic of church\u00a0<span data-contrast=\"auto\">comes up, and you <span data-contrast=\"auto\">ask<span data-contrast=\"auto\">, \u201cAndrew, what do you like about your church?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He replies, \u201cWell, my church has a wonderful children\u2019s program. The messages are always encouraging. And I love the worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You then ask, \u201cwhat <em>exactly<\/em> do you enjoy about the worship?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goodness!\u201d he answers. \u201cWe have an amazing worship band. They\u2019re so talented and can play any style. They play a mix of hymns and contemporary songs. We even have services for each and members get to choose based on what they enjoy. For me, I prefer the contemporary service. The songs get me into a worshipful mood. You know, our worship leader actually went to Juilliard and toured with the band Third Day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are many aspects of Andrew\u2019s answer that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture is clear: corporate worship encompasses much more than music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57927,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57925\/revisions\/57927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}