{"id":1688,"date":"2026-09-10T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:09:33","slug":"intro-to-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/intro-to-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Audrey Hollenberg-Duffey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NYC worship is&nbsp;sacred&nbsp;space. We ask you to help us cultivate and&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;the sacredness of this space by silencing or turning off your cell phones, except when you have been invited to use them in worship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some&nbsp;worships&nbsp;this week will be energetic and upbeat, while others will be quieter and introspective. We invite you to be mindful of the mood of worship and to match the tone set by the worship. We journey together, with Christ as the focus of our worship and as the guide for our lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have an intimate space this year for NYC so as much as possible, as&nbsp;you come into the auditorium, move to the center of the rows and do not leave empty seats so we can easily fill in the space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are invited to this space, to this moment \u2013 to worship, to reflect, to imagine, and to be part of a community. Come with an openness to the Spirit; allowing the Spirit to work in you and through you so that together we can share the Light Within Us with those around us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Hollenberg-Duffey NYC worship is&nbsp;sacred&nbsp;space. We ask you to help us cultivate and&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;the sacredness of this space by silencing or turning off your cell phones, except when you have been invited to use them in worship.&nbsp; Some&nbsp;worships&nbsp;this week will be energetic and upbeat, while others will be quieter and introspective. We invite you to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,47,46,25,49],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audrey-hollenberg-duffey","tag-instruction","tag-intro","tag-light","tag-nyc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}