{"id":751,"date":"2006-10-27T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/27\/thoughts-on-worship\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T19:23:38","slug":"thoughts-on-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/27\/thoughts-on-worship","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was discussing worship with David Jones, the leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rufstanford.com\/\">Reformed University Fellowship at Stanford<\/a>, and he put something into words that I\u2019ve been trying to articulate for a while, \u201cWorship is both <strong>expressive<\/strong> and <strong>formative<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, worship doesn\u2019t only <strong>show<\/strong> what we feel and believe, it also <strong>shapes<\/strong> what we feel and believe.<\/p>\n<p>My students will only hear me preach a given sermon once \u2014 but they may sing a worship song dozens of times. And if we\u2019ve chosen catchy yet superficial junk for them to sing we\u2019ve done them a real disservice.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why we don\u2019t just sing any old song in our Chi Alpha meetings. They have to be catchy while also being profound and ennobling. In other words, they have to both <strong>sound good<\/strong> and <strong>be good<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christomlin.com\/\">Chris Tomlin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benpasley.com\/\">Ben Pasley<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertheworshipcircle.com\/\">Enter the Worship Circle<\/a>) stand out for really hitting the mark consistently. Of the old hymn writers, Isaac Watts really had it going&nbsp;on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I was discussing worship with David Jones, the leader of Reformed University Fellowship at Stanford, and he put something into words that I\u2019ve been trying to articulate for a while, \u201cWorship is both expressive and formative.\u201d In other words, worship doesn\u2019t only show what we feel and believe, it also shapes \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/27\/thoughts-on-worship\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThoughts on Worship\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-nuggets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-c7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}