{"id":2515,"date":"2012-08-06T23:39:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2012-08-06T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:39:13","slug":"redeemer-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"Redeemer Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt is unfortunate, that Redeemer doesn't have a choir like most other evangelical churches. They have all kinds of volunteers but not for the main choir. All major musical roles are for professionals (for hire with pay). As far as I know.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile professionals are definitely a major plus, I believe it is an excuse to call it an outreach to musicians (particularly non-believers) in the neighborhood. Not that one would not see conversions in this manner, but though one is saved (totally God's doing alone), the other might have been cursed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf there is a way to volunteer for choir, on a frequent basis, it would have been so easy to leave CCCNY choir next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI do not want to see Nadia without a choir. I love to see her singing, just seeing, not hearing, is joy to my heart already.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is an unfortunate thing the way CCCNY choir is handled as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate, that Redeemer doesn't have a choir like most other evangelical churches. They have all kinds of volunteers but not for the main choir. All major musical roles are for professionals (for hire with pay). As far as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2515\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}