{"id":5959,"date":"2017-04-11T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2017-04-11T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:32:30","slug":"lucifers-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5959","title":{"rendered":"Lucifer&#8217;s triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Charisma News<\/i>, which is published for the sort of people who honestly believe Oral Roberts could channel a mysterious cosmic force that cured people, asks a vital question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/opinion\/64036-is-worship-music-lucifer-s-next-great-battleground\" target=\"_blank\">Is Worship Music Lucifer&#8217;s Next Great Battleground?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As one who lives much of my life with headphones on, including as I write this article, with anointed worship music being pumped into my spirit night and day, this is a challenging message to deliver. It&#8217;s challenging due to the fact that I highly revere the anointing that rests on so much of today&#8217;s and yesterday&#8217;s worship music. It disturbs me that such an article would even be necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ho-hum.  The correct answer is &#8230; Yes.  When people go to church and listen to bright, up-tempo music, and leave feeling optimistic about the world and their place in it, Lucifer&#8217;s design is abetted.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, for instance, to this great staple of Christian worship, the song in every church organists <i>repertoire<\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/OCP Songs - Shall We Gather at the River.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Shall We Gather At The River?<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Is that not bleak, dreary, joyless, painful?  Does it not make you want to throw yourself in the river and drown?  Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charisma News, which is published for the sort of people who honestly believe Oral Roberts could channel a mysterious cosmic force that cured people, asks a vital question: Is Worship Music Lucifer&#8217;s Next Great Battleground? As one who lives much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}