{"id":70,"date":"2007-03-30T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:56:04","slug":"friday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/friday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of thoughts running through my mind right now as I prepare for a small workshop to help boost the confidence of the musicians at my current church before I leave. \u00a0The most pressing on my mind right now is this one:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can we lead others into God&#8217;s presence if we haven&#8217;t been there ourselves?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last night I led worship for a small gathering and the leader said that I would be &#8220;leading&#8230;(them)&#8230;into God&#8217;s presence tonight.&#8221; \u00a0I thought&#8230;wow, you know what? \u00a0<strong>I haven&#8217;t really been in God&#8217;s presence today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How can we lead worship when we don&#8217;t spend time in worship daily?<br \/>\nHow can we lead worship when we are chasing after other things besides God?<\/p>\n<p>Man&#8230;I need to be in His presence <strong>more than ever.<\/strong><\/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\/friday-thoughts\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of thoughts running through my mind right now as I prepare for a small workshop to help boost the confidence of the musicians at my current church before I leave. \u00a0The most pressing on my mind right now is this one: How can we lead others into God&#8217;s presence if we haven&#8217;t been there [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}