{"id":7608,"date":"2013-02-18T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2013-02-18T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T12:00:17","slug":"music-monday-step-intentionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2013\/02\/18\/music-monday-step-intentionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Step Intentionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To The Moon - Sara Groves\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyWS6ZxCbEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a humorous song written by Sara Groves that actually holds a really good point. This song talks all about the church running from the conflict of the world &#8211; fleeing to the moon in a moment of &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to deal with this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I have always enjoyed this song (even though Matt laughs at me sometimes due to it&#8217;s silliness) because it speaks to a reality of the foolishness of avoiding the world&#8217;s sin. There are many times I just wanted to run and hide &#8211; be it a frustrating conversation challenging my faith or a discouragement in watching a fellow believer take Scripture way out of context and represent a characteristic of God that in inaccurate. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve caused many others to smack their own heads as well as God is continually modeling and shaping me to be more like Him and less like my sinful self.<\/p>\n<p>Just as this song touches on the irony of running from the world, it&#8217;s been a helpful tool in remembering to look at the large picture of Christianity and the faithfulness of God to work amongst us broken and sinful people. What a great God that He uses us losers as tools to reach the lost!<\/p>\n<p>So in those moments that I want to rein it in, pack it up and run away from conflict, frustration and &#8220;the log in another&#8217;s eye&#8221;, I am thankful that God uses people like Sara Groves to point out the silliness in that philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Afterall, how will they hear or see if no one shares Christ?<\/p>\n<p>You have to get into the muck to help another out of the muck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Step intentionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a humorous song written by Sara Groves that actually holds a really good point. This song talks all about the church running from the conflict of the world &#8211; fleeing to the moon in a moment of &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to deal with this&#8221;. I have always enjoyed this song (even though Matt&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2013\/02\/18\/music-monday-step-intentionally\/#more-7608\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,19,15,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo","category-gods-heart","category-honesty","category-life-thoughts","category-music-monday","category-my-heart","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}