{"id":36,"date":"2007-06-19T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-10-20T00:20:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:20:58","slug":"defining-worship-part-1-how-large-is-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2007\/06\/19\/defining-worship-part-1-how-large-is-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Worship (Part 1): How large is the box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this picture a while back when you couldn&#8217;t go to an evangelical church service without hearing someone trying to cover Matt Redman or Delirious. Come to think of it, maybe you still can&#8217;t. Now I like that stuff just fine, but I couldn&#8217;t help but think about how it&#8217;s just a drop in an ocean of music. I&#8217;ve spoken with young Christians who have actually had no exposure to any other kind of worship service. Whoa. When I look at the patterns of worship in the Old Testament, I don&#8217;t even see a whole lot of music. Worship must be much larger than that!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i159.photobucket.com\/albums\/t152\/mattwills_photobucket\/worship_box.gif\" height=\"388\" width=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/388;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you can&#8217;t make worship TOO large or it loses all of its meaning. I&#8217;ve heard some people say that our whole lives should be a worship unto the Lord. Well, sure, I agree with that, but the word is now of no use anymore. Standing and singing a hymn of adoration to Jesus has GOT to be more worshipful than eating my breakfast cereal in the morning or the word has no potency.<\/p>\n<p>So how large is the box above? What about the relative size of the music circle? This is one angle I hope to explore. I think I&#8217;m safe in saying that the little blue blip is the right size though! Now crank up that Vineyard-covering-Redman-covering-Martin Smith on &#8220;Did you feel the mountains tremble?&#8221; and get back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this picture a while back when you couldn&#8217;t go to an evangelical church service without hearing someone trying to cover Matt Redman or Delirious. Come to think of it, maybe you still can&#8217;t. Now I like that stuff just fine, but I couldn&#8217;t help but think about how it&#8217;s just a drop in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2007\/06\/19\/defining-worship-part-1-how-large-is-the-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defining Worship (Part 1): How large is the box?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defining-worship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}