{"id":2328,"date":"2022-07-21T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2022-07-21T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:53:27","slug":"the-berean-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/local-community\/the-berean-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berean Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you are a Worship Leader, Church member, or just listening to songs on the radio; do you ever wonder if what you are listening to is theologically accurate? Is it Christ-Centered or Me-Centered? Do the lyrics come from scripture?<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebereantest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thebereantest.com<\/span><\/a> is a site dedicated to looking at lyrics (specifically worship songs) to see how they line up with scripture, based on the Bereans vetting system found in the book of Acts.<br>This site offers a helpful ranking system, scripture references, and overall feedback to make you comfortable (or maybe uncomfortable) in presenting a new Worship Song to your congregations.<br><br>The baseline questions each test answers are:<br>1. What message does the song communicate?<br>2. How much of the lyrics line up with Scripture?<br>3. How would an outsider interpret the song?<br>4. What does this song glorify?<br><br>Along with &#8220;singability,&#8221; I believe theological accuracy and Christ-Centered worship is of utmost importance. I have found this to be a helpful tool in vetting new songs to introduce to my congregation and I hope you do too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\/\/SUBMITTED BY MICAH JOHNSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebereantest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are a Worship Leader, Church member, or just listening to songs on the radio; do you ever wonder if what you are listening to is theologically accurate? Is it Christ-Centered or Me-Centered? Do the lyrics come from scripture?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-community","category-local-community","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aflc.org\/evangelism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}