Bible Question:
Please help me. I attend many contemporary Christian worship services. I often have difficulty understanding the lyrics. Some examples: 1. "Let the river flow" 2. "Let your fire fall" 3. "Dance with me Jesus" I don't understand the lyrics to these songs and it makes my worship experience less than optimal. I finally put my foot down with the "Dance with me Jesus" worship song and now I have the Pastor and elders in conflict over the spiritual accuracy of asking Jesus to dance with us...not what I had intended at all! Does anyone else have difficulty over the spiriual accuracy of these songs? Do I really want Jesus to dance with me? Can I stop the river's flow? Isn't the fire falling from God a symbol of His judgment? Do I want any of these things aspart of my worship experiences? Please advise. Blessings! Bud Greenberg PSALM 133 |
Bible Answer: Bud I think you brought up an interesting subject. I agree with many post here that the problem isn’t new or old but rather the lyrics. So many songs today are sung about us, what we are going to do, who we are etc. Where is the worship of God in that? “I’m going into the enemies camp and take back what he stole from me” or “going up to high places” These are totally absurd, we aren’t doing anything Christ did it all. Other songs are talking to Satan, what going to happen to him or what we are going to do to him and etc. Again where is the worship of God in that? “Satan you under my foot”. Wouldn’t we enjoy it if our friends came to sing our praise and kept mentioning our enemies name? Other songs are like some calling the Holy Spirit like one would call a cat. “Come Holy Spirit” “Anointing fall on us”. We have all the Holy Spirit we are going to get, we need to learn to yield to Him to allow Him to move through us. God is majestic, high and lifted up and is to be praise worshipped and adored. He is to be the focus of our worship not just included as another aspect. I believe Pastors are going to answer one day for what they have allowed to be sung in their churches. I do think the problem is more prevalent today, most hymns started out to be a form of scripture memorization. Where various scriptures were set to music to help or aid in memorizing them. Later many Hymns were a personal confession or act of worship that later got set to music. Today most are written to make money for the writer and I think certain liberties are taken, in the name of speed or convenience, or to make them more marketable. EdB |