Posted on 08/29/2006 1:08:37 PM PDT by NYer
Every verse and phrase of AMAZING GRACE IS PRECIOUS, TO ME.
No, I just don't like the tune.
The old crusty Navy Chief at the CREDO workshops at the WMCA ranch house above San Diego used to love to wake the particpants up with BAGPIPES AMAZING GRACE ABOUT 0530 mornings of the weekend.
Did quite well at top volume.
Hmmmmmm.
Ah well.
For many of us, a few bars of the tune are sufficient for a spiritual blessing.
"Earth and all Stars"!
Hate to say it, I have a soft spot for that one. Bad lyrics and bad message, but for some reason I find myself humming it every once in a while.
No accounting for taste I guess.
Short explanation:
Do the words point us to "Christ and Him, crucified" or to God's creation?
Not my favorite sound but sometimes I enjoy them. My Mother's Mother was a Campbell.
Andrews here.
My great grandfather was from England. I try to blame most of my excentricies on him.
Haven't sung it in years but from what I remember, God's creation. And all that man does is to the glory of God.
I'll have to look up the words.
Howdy, Bro.
Sorry to differ! But guess I do.
I'm not like my relatives on either side.
Just me.
lol I love the "hymn" threads!
Hope all is well with you.
Personally, I refuse to attend contemporary worship but have certainly heard both songs if I've been in the building during that service.
I'm passing your versions along, if you don't mind. Thank you Pastor Henrickson.
Slightly off topic here, but this has always bothered me. If we're created in the image and likeness of God, why do some non-Catholics consider yourselves as "worms?"
As Catholics we are taught:
356 Of all visible creatures only man is "able to know and love his creator". He is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake",and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God's own life. It was for this end that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity
357 Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons. And he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his stead.
You are not some lowly worm, but a marvellous creation of the Almighty God.
Didn't the Seraphim have a set of six wings?
Me too. I'm so upset with so many things that are happening in the churches I could type for three days straight.
What is sad is that with all the seeker-centered mega churches out there, people that are very new and not grounded in the Word think it is perfectly okay. After all, what is their frame of reference but a stage instead of an altar and happy talk sermons? Why bring up a topic like suffering and ruin a perfectly good concert? < /sarcasm >
While I agree in general, even in our condemnations of the terrible we should be just.
I think "I am the bread of Life" is almost entirely a cento of verses from the Bread of Life discourse. I think singing Scripure isn't a priori bad. We're no more pretending to be our Lord than St. John was when he wrote the passage. In principle it should be okay.
BUt why we have to sing tripe mystifies me. It's like the defense given to Judge Carswell - that the mediocre should be represnted like everybody else. Nope. Hymns should be the best we have, for many reasons, not the least of which is that hymns may be the one opportunity a lot of people have to listen to and to sing good music. (Same goes for translations of Scripture.)
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