{"id":573,"date":"2009-11-19T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-06-20T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:17:31","slug":"praise-reorienting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Praise Reorienting Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!<br \/>\nServe the Lord with gladness!<br \/>\nCome into his presence with singing!&#8221;\u009d ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=psalm+100\">Psalm 100:1-2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This doxology needs to be understood not only as a literary <em>assertion of trustful simplicity<\/em> (which it is) but also as an action which <em>reorients life<\/em>. When the community praises, it submits and reorders life. It is not only a moment of worship, but also an embrace of a <em>doxological life<\/em> which is organized differently. So the summons is a summons to reorient life.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">&#8211; Walter Brueggemann, &#8220;Psalm 100&#8243;\u009d, <em>Interpretation<\/em> (Jan 1985): 65.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!&#8221;\u009d ( Psalm 100:1-2) &#8220;This doxology needs to be understood not only as a literary assertion of trustful simplicity (which it is) but also as an action which reorients life. When the community praises, it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Praise Reorienting Life&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[292,113,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}