Posted on 05/28/2014 6:41:33 AM PDT by Gamecock
PFL
The Gettys do not fall under that umbrella.
Oh, I don’t know. Most people enjoy singing the same phrase 800 times with their hands in the air. And, heck, if people like it, it’s got to be good.
Thanks.
Never understood the Prosperity Gospel thing. Even though the Gospel exhorts: Blessed are the poor in spirit, I don’t believe God wants me to live in squalor. If one is blessed with material wealth, I believe one has an obligation to be very charitable. I could be wrong, but the little I have read on Prosperity Gospel is if one has a positive attitude one’s energy will attract riches and blessings (material and spiritual). But, my question is where does one go from here? As we all know, money changes people. Is there any exhortation to beware of this negative change that happens in many people when they acquire wealth?
Southern Baptists used to do it with “Just as I am”.
Spent last night at the hospital with my wife who had cervical fusion surgery. She got more sleep than i did. A little punch drunk today.
Check songwriters like Daniel Nahmod.
Which isn't so.
“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me...”
“Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?”
The above are powerful lyrics from two different classic hymns that acknowledge a basic Biblical truth. That truth is that man is inherently sinful and needs a savior. That truth is the basic truth that, I believe, marks a basic dividing line between liberals and conservatives.
Liberals live in a fantasy land where men are basically good. They continue to sing “Where have all the flowers gone” and wonder why we can’t all get along and coexist. Utopia is possible, they think, if only the right smart people take charge.
This is a good summary by Tim Challies. Pay attention to the lyrics in the songs you sing...and that includes all the songs you listen to and sing. If you are a Christian, your worship does not end on Sunday. All things should be done in the name of Christ.
Do tell.
Challies is no doubt very familiar with the Gettys. His comments regard a less doctrine-based brand of contemporary Christianity.
Upstream gov_bean_counter mentioned the Gettys, who actually write hymns.
Love this:
In Christ alone, Who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save.
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied;
For ev’ry sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live.
(From In Christ Alone)
Please accept my prayers offered to God for a speedy and complete recovery.
Thank you. She is doing well.
***Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me...
Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?***
You know those two have been changed in a lot of feel good hymnals?
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved and set me
free.
Would He devote that sacred head, for such a one as I.
Appropriately corrected. Thank you.
The best hymns are based on solid theological content, not feel-good emotionalism. I cringe every time I open the paperback “new” songbook, wondering what sort of awfulness might be imminent. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised.
The prosperity gospel is mostly devoid of solid theological content, so its music is going to be the same.
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