{"id":1605,"date":"2020-05-03T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:14:45","slug":"ten-albums-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/05\/ten-albums-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Albums &#8211; (#8)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Emu Music are an Australian collection of Christian musicians committed to putting the themes of God&#8217;s Word to good music.<!--more-->  I first came across their work in the mid-2000s while leading the music teams for the then-nascent scots@seven evening service church-plant at <a href=\"http:\/\/scotschurch.com\">The Scots&#8217; Church<\/a> in Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emumusic.com\/products\/you-alone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1770\/products\/You_Alone_a13a4712-dabe-4902-87b1-518851aaaea0_grande.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"You Alone \u2013 Emu Music\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Emu Music&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/emumusic.com\/products\/you-alone\">You Alone<\/a> is a live recording from 2002 that contains some classic Aussie Christian church music, and marked my realisation that there were actually-talented Aussie Christian songwriters who cared as much about the words sung as I did.  So much of my thinking about the place of music in life and in the church stems from the work they did (and are still doing) writing songs and running conferences.  I thank God for their ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I suspect there aren&#8217;t many who would know about this album, let alone rate it as formative, I can&#8217;t build a list of ten without it being included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2020\/04\/ten-albums\/\">&lt; Ten Albums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emu Music are an Australian collection of Christian musicians committed to putting the themes of God&#8217;s Word to good music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RxuW-pT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}