"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Saturday, February 13, 2010
I love songs based on Scripture. We'll be worshiping to this one Sunday in our College and Young Singles group.
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2. Roy
- 02/13/2010 1:28 pm CST
Discussing music so easily runs into communication road blocks. One's tastes, usually at least partly shaped by one's own history, can become one's rules for discerning quality. Those rules then take the role of objective standards...as if there were such standards, or that they could be easily discerned, anyway.
That's all a sort of apologetic caveat before I turn to a comment.
Often I appeal to one particular idea as an, if not objective standard, at least rough guide regarding evaluating worship music. Does the singing lead the singers to the frame of mind one notes in worshippers presented in scripture?
Reflect for a moment on what you can off the top of your head recall about every single instance recorded in scripture where a person became aware that they were in the presence of God. List at least two, preferably half a dozen, adjectives describing the person's response. Think of Isaiah, of Daniel, of Job, of Peter after catching the boatload of fish.
In the words of Sukey Harely, whose story as part of the Welsh revival circa 1900 is told in the book "More than Notion", such people are "clean updid". (Sukey was an uneducated woman from a small village. But no one having read her story could have any doubt what she meant.)
3. Quaid
- 02/15/2010 7:50 am CST
I really like that song. (A lot)
I first heard of it through Jenny three years ago, or so. She was speaking so highly of it, that I asked her how it went. She pulled out a little keyboard (like a Casio 80's 14-inch keyboard) from her bag and some sheet music she happened to have with her and told me to play. I told her I couldn't play a song I'd never heard before, but she said, "it's okay, the whole song is only four chords over and over again. Just play the chords." When she said that I was skeptical that the song would be worth anything.
I played the four chords (over and over) and she sang. It was incredible and it further proved the point that a good song doesn't need a 15-piece worship orchestra or even a four-man "relevant" band to resonate with its listeners.
The song is Biblical, to the point and God-focused. One of my professors might say that the only catch with the piece is that it might represent modalism, equating God the Father and God the Son without specific referents or qualifications. (For someone who has no solid concept of the Trinity, singing the lyrics could prove confusing).
I've not gotten to that level of nit-picking, though - I love this song.
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A favorite. We do it often at church.
I especially love when we do it at youth group. In a day when it is reported that something like 75% of kids who grow up in the church wind up leaving the faith, it is an encouraging thing to hear a roomful of zealous young people crying out in reverent worship to God. It gives me hope, that some of them, by God's grace will beat the odds. May God grant it.