{"id":6301,"date":"2012-03-27T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:19:08","slug":"how-to-deal-with-a-terrible-church-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2012\/03\/how-to-deal-with-a-terrible-church-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Deal With A Terrible Church Singer"},"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>We\u2019ve posted several videos over the last year or so of <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=5052\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">people singing in church who should have never been allowed to sing in church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God loves them just as much as the rest of us, but he didn\u2019t bless them with the ability to sing.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is a pastor supposed to do when somebody starts to sangin\u2019 and everyone\u2019s ears start to bleedin\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Well, this pastor has found a solution.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with sneaking up behind them and snatching the mic away while they\u2019re not looking. Then you follow that up by telling the congregration how awful of a singer that person was, but you\u2019ve got to balance things out by yelling at them for not having the \u201cboldness for God\u201d to stand up and demonstrate their own complete lack of talent.<\/p>\n<p>This may only be amusing to us because we\u2019re both in ministry, but if you\u2019ve got this problem at your own church, you may want to consider sharing this video with your pastor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r9l5BtkypCs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r9l5BtkypCs<\/a>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 We\u2019ve posted several videos over the last year or so of people singing in church who should have never been allowed to sing in church. God loves them just as much as the rest of us, but he didn\u2019t bless them with the ability to sing. 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