{"id":6472,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-difference-between-hymns-and-praise-choruses\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:22","slug":"the-difference-between-hymns-and-praise-choruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-difference-between-hymns-and-praise-choruses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Hymns and Praise Choruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church.  He came home and his wife asked him how it was.<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u201d said the farmer, \u201cIt was good.  They did something different however.  They sang praise choruses instead of hymns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Praise choruses,\u201d said his wife, \u201cWhat are those.\u201d  Oh, they\u2019re okay.  They\u2019re sort of like hymns only different,\u201d said the farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what\u2019s the difference?\u201d asked the wife.  The farmer said, \u201cWell its like this.  If I were to say to you, \u2018Martha, the cows are in the corn,\u2019 well that would be a hymn.  If on the other hand I was to say to you, \u2018Martha, Martha, Martha, Oh Martha, MARTHA, MARTHA, the cows, the big cows, the brown cows, the black cows, the white cows, the black and white cows, the COWS, COWS, COWS, are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn,\u2019 well, that would be a praise chorus.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Brown (Marksjoy@aol.com) Angels Watchin\u2019 Over Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old farmer went to the city one weekend and attended the big city church. He came home and his wife asked him how it was. Well,\u201d said the farmer, \u201cIt was good. They did something different however. They sang praise choruses instead of hymns.\u201d Praise choruses,\u201d said his wife, \u201cWhat are those.\u201d Oh, they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[296,814,1870,171,1868,1869],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472"}],"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=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}