{"id":7700,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/weve-got-jesus-to-sing-about\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:54","slug":"weve-got-jesus-to-sing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/weve-got-jesus-to-sing-about\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Got Jesus To Sing About!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of the Depression, Clarence Darrow, the brilliant lawyer, was addressing the members of a black church in Chicago.  Most of these people were desperately poor.  They didn&#8217;t have jobs and had little in which to place their hope.  Darrow recounted their troubles and then noted how joyfully they had sung.  Then he asked this pointed question: &#8220;What do you have to sing about?&#8221;  A lady in the congregation jumped to her feet and said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got Jesus to sing about!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Donald F. Ackland, et. al.,  Broadman Comments 1991-1992  (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days of the Depression, Clarence Darrow, the brilliant lawyer, was addressing the members of a black church in Chicago. Most of these people were desperately poor. They didn&#8217;t have jobs and had little in which to place their hope. Darrow recounted their troubles and then noted how joyfully they had sung. Then he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,182,186,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700"}],"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=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}