{"id":4104,"date":"2022-11-21T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:47","slug":"end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"END GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I continue to struggle with modern &#8220;worship songs&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lyrics are shallow.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The songs contain plenty of metaphors but little poetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, most importantly &#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of being lost in worship, I often find myself lost in thought &#8211; questioning the validity of the words I am meant to be singing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When words are projected on the screen in the sanctuary for the congregation to sing in unison, it is implied that we are singing Truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I think the screening process should be stringent. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe you will say I am being nitpicky, but this one we sang this morning wouldn&#8217;t get through my vetting process:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20221120-223210.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"2400\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20221120-223210.png\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20221120-223127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/actually-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to struggle with modern &#8220;worship songs&#8221;.\u00a0 The lyrics are shallow.\u00a0 The songs contain plenty of metaphors but little poetry.\u00a0 And, most importantly &#8230;\u00a0 Instead of being lost in worship, I often find myself lost in thought &#8211; questioning the validity of the words I am meant to be singing. When words are projected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4108,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}