{"id":5715,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/drop-kick-me-jesus\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:04","slug":"drop-kick-me-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/drop-kick-me-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop-Kick Me Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drop kick me , Jesus<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nDrop kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life<br \/>\nEnd over end, neither left nor to right<br \/>\nStraight through the heart of them righteous uprights<br \/>\nDropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life<\/p>\n<p>Make me, oh, make me, Lord, more than I am<br \/>\nMake me a piece of your master game plan<br \/>\nFree from the earthly tempestion below<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got the will, Lord, if you&#8217;ve got the toe<\/p>\n<p>Repeat Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the brothers who&#8217;ve gone on before<br \/>\nAnd all of the sisters who&#8217;ve knocked on your door<br \/>\nAll  the departed, dear loved ones of mine<br \/>\nAnd stick &#8217;em up front on the offensive line<\/p>\n<p>Repeat Chorus<\/p>\n<p>A lowly bench warmer I&#8217;m contented to be<br \/>\nUntil the time when you have need of me<br \/>\nTo flash on the scoreboard that shines from on high<br \/>\nIn the big Super Bowl way up in the sky<\/p>\n<p>By Paul Craft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop kick me , Jesus Chorus: Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life End over end, neither left nor to right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life Make me, oh, make me, Lord, more than I am Make me a piece of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114,926,2013],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}