{"id":3030,"date":"2019-07-21T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2019-07-21T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:14:23","slug":"saturday-evening-worship-at-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/21\/saturday-evening-worship-at-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday evening worship at Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting back to the heart of worship, it&#8217;s all about you, it&#8217;s all about you, Jesus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to truly worship at our church. My mind is on things I need to do, people I need to talk to, people I should catch up with&#8230; And I&#8217;m thinking how we can improve this or that during the worship&#8230;Announcements should be faster&#8230;they can improve the lighting&#8230;too much stuff on stage&#8230;why haven&#8217;t they moved the piano, it&#8217;s too close to the edge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I worship at another church, I can usually relax. But yesterday, I couldn&#8217;t. I was looking at things that our church can copy from them &#8211; offering receptacles, baskets with welcome brochures, gifts for new comers, prayer room for those who need prayer after service.<\/p>\n<p>I had to close my eyes and consciously focus on worshipping God. I have to intentionally focus on the words we were singing instead of on the lighting and sound and what the musicians were wearing. I force myself to pay attention to the words of the Bible instead of the pastor&#8217;s smooth delivery style.<\/p>\n<p>I need to go attend evening service more as I used to before Perspectives. It&#8217;s where I re-center. It takes me away from being a &#8220;professional Christian&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After church, we went to the most popular Asian center in Irvine. Parking is worst than Rowland Heights. We were really lucky to get a space right when someone pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>We ate at Pepper Lunch, got an order of sui mai from Tim Ho Wan, a custard tart at 85. We decided we should do a food tour of Rowland Heights. We have a lot of good food so close to us.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun date.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning we went to Ontario Mills for the Skechers sale. That was fun too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too often that I have a whole Saturday free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting back to the heart of worship, it&#8217;s all about you, it&#8217;s all about you, Jesus&#8230; It&#8217;s hard for me to truly worship at our church. My mind is on things I need to do, people I need to talk to, people I should catch up with&#8230; And I&#8217;m thinking how we can improve this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}