{"id":184,"date":"2005-06-05T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/the-perils-of-leading-worship\/"},"modified":"2005-06-05T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T15:30:15","slug":"the-perils-of-leading-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/the-perils-of-leading-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of leading worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A controversy during the Reformation was whether a priest could properly serve the Lord&#8217;s Supper if he was living in sin.<!--more--> When I&#8217;ve helped to lead worship in church, I do try to sing loudly and clearly enough so that it helps other people, but that&#8217;s not all that it means to lead worship.  But when I think too much about it, instead of praying, &#8220;God, make what I&#8217;m singing about become real to me,&#8221; I&#8217;ve often tried harder to act like it&#8217;s real, thinking that would be a blessing for the congregation to see me with a spiritual look on my face.  But whatever is not of faith is sin. <\/p>\n<p>I get embarassed all the time about trying anything unusual in worship. As if I thought I was holier than others. Then it occurs to me that I need to be more fervent in worship and prayer precisely because I&#8217;m not as holy as others. Bartimaeus didn&#8217;t whisper, &#8220;Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me&#8230; when you get a chance. I don&#8217;t want to bother you.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversy during the Reformation was whether a priest could properly serve the Lord&#8217;s Supper if he was living in sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}