{"id":608,"date":"2010-01-29T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2013-06-19T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:15:11","slug":"indictment-on-evangelical-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Indictment on Evangelical Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theologyinverse.blogspot.com\/\">Justin Wainscott<\/a>, pastor and poet, has penned a<a href=\"http:\/\/theologyinverse.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/indictment.html\"> powerful poetic challenge<\/a> to much of what is typical in evangelical worship today.\u00a0 If you do not already read his blog, I recommend it to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indictment on Evangelical Worship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M. Justin Wainscott, \u00a9 2007<\/p>\n<p>Set the stage and dim the lights,<br \/>\nCreate my mood; abuse my rights.<br \/>\nOut-do all you did last week,<br \/>\nAnd never let the silence speak.<br \/>\nEntertain me, at all costs,<br \/>\nBlur the lines &#8216;tween true and false.<br \/>\nSmile and tell me all&#8217;s okay,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll believe whate&#8217;er you say.<br \/>\nGive me mirrors; give me smoke,<br \/>\nFill me with cliches and jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Like an orphan with no story,<br \/>\nCut me off from all before me.<br \/>\nHide the pain and fake the smile,<br \/>\nLamentation&#8217;s out of style.<br \/>\nGive me milk and warm the bottle,<br \/>\nMake sure it&#8217;s the latest model.<br \/>\nNumb my mind with borrowed tricks,<br \/>\nFeed my soul with Pixi-stix.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t confront what lurks within,<br \/>\nOr else I&#8217;ll never come again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Wainscott, pastor and poet, has penned a powerful poetic challenge to much of what is typical in evangelical worship today.\u00a0 If you do not already read his blog, I recommend it to you. Indictment on Evangelical Worship M. Justin Wainscott, \u00a9 2007 Set the stage and dim the lights, Create my mood; abuse my &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Indictment on Evangelical Worship&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":[16,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}