{"id":3980,"date":"2018-01-26T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:43:39","slug":"worship-or-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Worship or entertainment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you raise your eyes to God and sing, \"Break Thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,\" is that entertainment\u2014or is it worship? Isn't there a difference between worship and entertainment? The church that can't worship must be entertained. And men who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. That is why we have the great evangelical heresy here today\u2014the heresy of religious entertainment. -- A. W. Tozer<\/p>\n<p><i>The Tozer Topical Reader \u2013 Volume Two<\/i>, comp. Ron Eggert, (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread Publishers, 2007), WORD<i>search<\/i> CROSS e-book, 143.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you raise your eyes to God and sing, &#8220;Break Thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,&#8221; is that entertainment\u2014or is it worship? Isn&#8217;t there a difference between worship and entertainment? The church that can&#8217;t worship must be entertained. And men who can&#8217;t lead a church to worship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/?p=3980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foresthillbaptistva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}