{"id":1060,"date":"2011-03-01T06:26:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2011-03-01T06:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:26:29","slug":"i-have-worshiped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/i-have-worshiped\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Worshiped&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stepping out in confession today to confess that I have worshiped other things in place of my God. \u00a0I have worshiped&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The thrill from a tightly-arranged song<\/li>\n<li>The emotional surge during a corporate worship setting<\/li>\n<li>Musicians and worship leaders who are better than I am<\/li>\n<li>My own musical skill<\/li>\n<li>My reputation among my own congregation<\/li>\n<li>My reputation among fellow worship leaders and church leaders<\/li>\n<li>The teaching, planning, and preparation that goes into worship ministry<\/li>\n<li>Music<\/li>\n<li>Technology and shiny new gadgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I really stop and ask the question of what do we worship, I realize that there have been many times where I have placed someone or something as more important than God. \u00a0I give it more worth at the time, effectively making it the object of my worship instead of my amazing God.<\/p>\n<p>I have worshiped worship itself, and I need to worship Jesus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/i-have-worshiped\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stepping out in confession today to confess that I have worshiped other things in place of my God. \u00a0I have worshiped&#8230; The thrill from a tightly-arranged song The emotional surge during a corporate worship setting Musicians and worship leaders who are better than I am My own musical skill My reputation among my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}