{"id":456,"date":"2009-11-02T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-11-02T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:00:05","slug":"humility-and-church-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/humility-and-church-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Humility and Church Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Rfyi0vm66Z4\/SoGVBRaYAAI\/AAAAAAAAGRw\/E_6ivE09T5w\/s1600-h\/worship-matters1.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368736079888777218\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 169px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Rfyi0vm66Z4\/SoGVBRaYAAI\/AAAAAAAAGRw\/E_6ivE09T5w\/s320\/worship-matters1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Years ago, I was in England at a large Christian conference. During one seminar, we were led in corporate worship by a guitarist whom I thought was average in every respect. As he finished what I would describe as a sorry time of worship in song, the elderly gentleman to my side turned my way. With a glowing smile, he asked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That was simply lovely, wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I wanted to say no, but the Holy Spirit caught my tongue before the answer slipped out. What I realized was that only one of us had been worshipping God during that time. And it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t me. I was busy worshipping myself, exulting in my knowledge of worship, my experiences, my training, my background.  Needless to say, God wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t impressed. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBut this is the one to whom I will look: he<br \/>\nwho is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (Isa 66:2b ESV).  May God grant us grace to truly seek His reputation above our own each time we meet to worship Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bob Kauflin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/158134824X\/wwwtakeyourvi-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Worship Matters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Years ago, I was in England at a large Christian conference. During one seminar, we were led in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/humility-and-church-singing\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}