{"id":6829,"date":"2011-11-12T01:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T06:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2011-11-13T23:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:25:43","slug":"the-cheers-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/the-cheers-hymn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheers &#8220;Hymn&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cheers-cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6831\" title=\"cheers-cast\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cheers-cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cheers-cast.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cheers-cast-350x249.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cheers-cast-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Granted: We live in cynical times. Several generations of television viewers are chronically jaded from advertising so that skepticism is part of the fabric of our worldview. Consequently, now is the era that <strong>we desire to truly belong before we believe, or trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1982, there started a half hour television sitcom called <em>Cheers<\/em>. You can see all the episodes on Netflix now. The lyrics to the theme sang that an atmosphere of acceptance and grace could be found at a bar more than anywhere else&#8230; What? Not in a church on a Sunday morning? Um. yep. Of course. &#8220;Duh,&#8221; we might say.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in response some churches have made their gathering spots pubs or bars, like here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1907204?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1907204\">Shoreline &#8220;Church in a Bar&#8221; promo<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user485751\">life in motion films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>But this is rather old news. This video is about 5 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure, times have changed a lot in the last 2 decades, but the funny thing is, they have also stayed much the same. (Like in this video, for instance, have you noticed how church groups love to use fonts that feel &#8220;cool&#8221; and &#8220;with it&#8221;?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regardless, of where we find it, genuine belonging still matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong> Where have <em>you<\/em> felt that you most belonged? <\/strong><em>At work? On a team? In the military? In a certain group or club? In a fellowship of believers? <\/em>I&#8217;d love to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Cheers Theme Song\u00a0Lyrics<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8220;Where Everybody Knows Your Name&#8221;<\/strong><em><br \/>\nby Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Making your way in the world today takes everything you&#8217;ve got.<br \/>\nTaking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you like to get away?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you want to go<\/p>\n<p>Where everybody knows your name,<br \/>\nand they&#8217;re always glad you came.<br \/>\nYou wanna be where you can see,<br \/>\nour troubles are all the same<br \/>\nYou wanna be where everybody knows<br \/>\nYour name.<\/p>\n<p>You wanna go where people know,<br \/>\npeople are all the same,<br \/>\nYou wanna go where everybody knows<br \/>\nyour name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Do these lyrics below ring true for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the era when we desire to truly belong before we believe, or trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[5296,382,5295,15,887,5294,41,2099,51,5293,5297],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-bar","tag-belonging","tag-cheers","tag-church","tag-culture","tag-diane","tag-jesus","tag-lyrics","tag-ministry","tag-sam","tag-theme-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}