{"id":10407,"date":"2016-08-17T00:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/religiousentertainment-church-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:52:55","slug":"religiousentertainment-church-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/religiousentertainment-church-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIOUS\nENTERTAINMENT; CHURCH: ENTERTAINMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Religious entertainment has so corrupted the Church of Christ that millions don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a heresy. Millions of evangelicals throughout the world have devoted themselves to religious entertainment. They don\u2019t know that it\u2019s as much a heresy as the counting of beads or the splashing of holy water or something else. To expose this, of course, raises a storm of angry protest among the people.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>One man wrote an article as an expose of me. He said that I claimed that religious entertainment was wrong and he said, \u201cDon\u2019t you know that every time you sing a hymn, it\u2019s entertainment?\u201d Every time you sing a hymn? I don\u2019t know how that fellow ever finds his way home at night. He ought to have a seeing eye dog and a man with a white cane to take him home!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When you raise your eyes to God and sing, \u201cBreak Thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,\u201d is that entertainment\u2014or is it worship? Isn\u2019t there a difference between worship and entertainment? The church that can\u2019t worship must be entertained. And men who can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Psalm 92:1\u20134; Psalm 95:1\u20137; Psalm 96:1\u20136; Psalm 100; Psalm 150<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Success and the Christian,<\/i> 6, 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious entertainment has so corrupted the Church of Christ that millions don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a heresy. Millions of evangelicals throughout the world have devoted themselves to religious entertainment. They don\u2019t know that it\u2019s as much a heresy as the counting of beads or the splashing of holy water or something else. To expose this, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/religiousentertainment-church-entertainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RELIGIOUS<br \/>\nENTERTAINMENT; CHURCH: ENTERTAINMENT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}