{"id":8001,"date":"2024-02-04T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:27","slug":"in-concert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8001","title":{"rendered":"IN CONCERT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight I accompanied 8 youth from our church to catch the Indianapolis show of Winter Jam, a big annual Christian concert tour.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never been a huge fan of Christian music &#8211; for my own reasons &#8211; and tonight didn&#8217;t win me over.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of my issues with Christian artists in concert has always been the inconsistency of singing about pointing others toward faith in Christ while peacocking around a stage in front of thousands of adoring fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a shot of Lecrae singing about humbly &#8220;standing in the background&#8221; as a Christian.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ironic.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240203_195328-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"3000\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh well. I am obviously not the demographic the Christian music industry is aiming at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I accompanied 8 youth from our church to catch the Indianapolis show of Winter Jam, a big annual Christian concert tour. I have never been a huge fan of Christian music &#8211; for my own reasons &#8211; and tonight didn&#8217;t win me over. One of my issues with Christian artists in concert has always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8001","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\/8001","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=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}