{"id":6,"date":"2008-08-18T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-08-20T07:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:52:48","slug":"must-church-musicians-be-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2008\/08\/must-church-musicians-be-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Church Musicians be Christians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/2008\/002\/6.61.html\">article in Leadership Journal online<\/a> in which Rich Muchow defends his practice of allowing non-Christian musicians to play in worship services.<\/p>\n<p>I figure the ECC community would have some opinions and wisdom about this. In this short column, Rich responds to the common objections and explains why he thinks it&#8217;s good for non-Christians to serve up front as worship musicians.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re able to read the article, please offer up your wisdom on the topic. &#8211; Katie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=6&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this short article in Leadership Journal online in which Rich Muchow defends his practice of allowing non-Christian musicians to play in worship services. I figure the ECC community would have some opinions and wisdom about this. 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