{"id":5052,"date":"2012-01-17T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2012-01-17T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:21:20","slug":"when-singing-in-church-goes-wrong-really-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2012\/01\/when-singing-in-church-goes-wrong-really-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"When Singing In Church Goes Wrong&#8230;..REALLY WRONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are two options for this video.<\/p>\n<p>1)It\u2019s a joke.<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly possible, particularly given the round of applause this guy gets at the end. Given the fact that we hear what we think are a few laughs at the end and the difficulty we have believing that someone with such an obvious lack of singing ability would actually be allowed to sing in church, we lean towards this option.<\/p>\n<p>However, we\u2019ve been witnesses to many a bad church performance in our day. So, it\u2019s not out of the realm of possibility that a church would do what so many churches do so often and been unable to say \u201cno\u201d when a lay person asked to \u201cshare their gift with God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if it was a joke, shouldn\u2019t people be laughing at what would therefore be an intentionally over the top set up for the song? \u00a0So the mystery remains\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads to option #2\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>2)This is by far the worst church performance in the history of bad church performances.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, then our prayers are with this man and his church.<\/p>\n<p>If real, it is our sincere hope that his\u00a0congregation, nay no person whatsoever, will ever have to listen to this man \u201csing\u201d ever again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcC5KnS6eVQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcC5KnS6eVQ<\/a>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 There are two options for this video. 1)It\u2019s a joke. 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