{"id":2169,"date":"2009-05-24T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:42:35","slug":"church-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/2169\/church-battle","title":{"rendered":"Church Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A battle arose between the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> and the Choir Director of The Lutheran Church of Grace.<\/p>\n<p>The first hint of trouble came when the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> preached on &#8220;dedicating yourselves to service&#8221; and the Choir Director chose to sing: &#8220;I Shall Not Be Moved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trying to believe it was a coincidence, the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> put the incident behind him. The next Sunday he preached on &#8220;giving.&#8221; Afterward the choir squirmed as the director led them in the hymn: &#8220;Jesus Paid It All.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this time, the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> was losing his temper. Sunday Morning attendance swelled as the tension between the two built. A large crowd showed up the next week to hear his sermon on &#8220;The sins of Gossiping.&#8221; Would you believe the Choir Director selected &#8220;I Love To Tell The Story?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was no turning back. The following Sunday the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> told the congregation that unless something changed, he was considering resignation. The entire church gasped when the Choir Director led them in &#8220;Why Not Tonight?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, no one was surprised when the <span class=\"il\">Pastor<\/span> resigned a week later, explaining that Jesus had led him there and Jesus was leading him away. The Choir Director could not resist &#8220;What A Friend We Have In Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking to SUPPORT other church goers instead of harass them? Our <a title=\"Christian Fish and Cross Pin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/lapelpins\/religious\/crossfish\">cross and fish lapel pin<\/a> might be for you.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2170\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/lapelpins\/religious\/crossfish\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2170\" title=\"0-lapelpins-religious-crossfish_lg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/0-lapelpins-religious-crossfish_lg-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Cross Fish \/ Ithicus Flag Pin\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross Fish \/ Ithicus Flag Pin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battle arose between the Pastor and the Choir Director of The Lutheran Church of Grace. The first hint of trouble came when the Pastor preached on &#8220;dedicating yourselves to service&#8221; and the Choir Director chose to sing: &#8220;I Shall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/2169\/church-battle\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11],"tags":[706,141,707,501,18],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness-items","category-jokes","tag-christian-fish-ithicus","tag-christian-pins","tag-cross","tag-joke","tag-lapel-pins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imprintitems.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}