{"id":191,"date":"2007-05-27T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-05-27T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T18:23:23","slug":"german_worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"German Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I led worship in the German Community we have every two weeks. This is my latest worship &quot;project&quot;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/2006\/10\/leading_worship.html\">(I wrote about this last year)<\/a> . Even though I speak German more or less fluent it doesn&#8217;t come to me as natural as English. What I mean it is not my heart language. I personally pray in Swiss or English. So praying in &quot;High German&quot; feels a bit difficult. <br \/>I have a hard time motivating myself to learn new songs and to practice.&nbsp; I get away with my experience, level of playing and contempt of the people who come to worship. <br \/>I like making music and leading people in worship is probably one my greatest strengths. But I&#8217;m kind of searching for something where my heart leaps again. <\/p>\n<p>Today I played an old song in the set. I used to sing it more than 20 years ago. searching through the Internet for German worship songs I found it again and was taken by it&#8217;s simplicity, the melody and the text. Everybody seemed to know it and sang harmonies as well as in canon. The good old songs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff3300;\">Die Herrlichkeit des Herrn bleibe ewiglich<br \/>Der Herr freue sich seiner Werke<br \/>Ich will singen dem Herrn mein Leben lang<br \/>Ich will loben meinen Gott so lang ich bin<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I led worship in the German Community we have every two weeks. This is my latest worship &quot;project&quot;. (I wrote about this last year) . Even though I speak German more or less fluent it doesn&#8217;t come to me as natural as English. What I mean it is not my heart language. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-thailand","category-music","category-worship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}