{"id":4034,"date":"2019-09-26T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2019-09-26T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:29:10","slug":"what-are-we-singing-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/what-are-we-singing-in-church","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Singing in Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday&#8217;s program Paul talked at length about why the music that is popular on Christian radio may not be what we should be singing in church on Sunday morning.  Hear the full audio in two parts below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/worship_music_1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>What Are We Singing in Church: Part One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/worship_music_2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>What Are We Singing in Church: Part Two<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/92194-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is 92194-1024x576.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Chris Tomlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CT: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/september\/chris-tomlin-still-dominates-worship-music-popular.html\">Why Chris Tomlin Still Dominates Both Radio and Sunday Morning <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Chris Tomlin was&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/09\/the-most-sung-artist-on-the-planet\/\">hailed by CNN&nbsp;<\/a>as the most-sung artist in history, \u201cwith upwards of 30 million believers singing his songs each Sunday.\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>&#8220;By singing radio chart-toppers, congregations miss out on theological heft.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>&#8220;Thematically, the songs tend to stay in the realm of praise and adoration without venturing too far into more complex themes like confession, doubt, and suffering.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday&#8217;s program Paul talked at length about why the music that is popular on Christian radio may not be what we should be singing in church on Sunday morning. Hear the full audio in two parts below: CT: Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/what-are-we-singing-in-church\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}