{"id":2002,"date":"2014-05-13T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:51:22","slug":"deny-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2014\/05\/13\/deny-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Deny what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a battle going on in a place you shouldn&#8217;t expect. It&#8217;s been going on for ages, and has taken quite a toll. The battleground is the local church, any church, take your pick, and the cause of the battle is music. It&#8217;s probably not news to many, as most in a church have participated on one side or the other. There are few neutrals.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Wittmer had a few words to say here that are worth reading.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mikewittmer.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/12\/face-the-music\/\">http:\/\/mikewittmer.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/12\/face-the-music\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember also what Jesus said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+16%3A24&#038;version=ESV\">Matthew 16:24<\/a>. How can we deny ourselves when we&#8217;re fighting to &#8220;sing it my way&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a battle going on in a place you shouldn&#8217;t expect. It&#8217;s been going on for ages, and has taken quite a toll. The battleground is the local church, any church, take your pick, and the cause of the battle is music. It&#8217;s probably not news to many, as most in a church have participated&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2014\/05\/13\/deny-what\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-wi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}