{"id":107,"date":"2005-07-02T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-07-02T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T14:07:00","slug":"on-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"On worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in an article a friend emailed to me.  It definitely rings true with the cry of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Worship is about a cry of the heart, not a slick production. Worship is about me coming to God and pouring out my guts, it&#8217;s not about having the latest sound or a hot new song. Worship is about receiving forgiveness and healing when I confess my sin and weakness. Worship isn&#8217;t about sophistication, it&#8217;s about honesty\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtaking off our spiritual disguises and letting God get under our layers of self-protection. I find that the Holy Spirit doesn&#8217;t respond to the polished outer presentation, but the hungry heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; by Andy Park, &#8220;Simple Worship is All We Really Need: A Word to Worship Leaders&#8221;<br \/>\nVisit <a href=\"ol(\">www.andypark.ca\/articles.shtml<\/a> for more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this in an article a friend emailed to me. It definitely rings true with the cry of my heart. &#8220;Worship is about a [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=107\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}