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Posted on 10/12/2008 7:28:21 AM PDT by hiho hiho
Graham Kendrick - the author of such painful hymns as Shine, Jesus, Shine has been included amongst a list of 50 people responsible for ruining Britain.
Being placed alongside individuals as nauseating as Paul Burrell, Jeffrey Archer and Janet Street-Porter might seem a little harsh for someone whose only crime is to have penned more happy-clappy songs than anyone else.
Four hundred at the last count.
But it's hard to fault the argument.
"Happy-cr*ppy hymns are a pestilence," says Quentin Letts, a parliamentary sketchwriter.
"They demean adult worship, dragging it to a level even lower than that of Mrs C F Alexander's All Things Bright and Beautiful.
"They are self-obsessed, babyish, cliched, simplistic."
There must be many who would agree that the attempts to make worship more modern and contemporary have left it banal and vacuous.
A nostalgic longing for hymns of yore does not tackle the issue of appealing to the younger generation put off by notions of church as old and stuffy.
The problem with the drive to be more contemporary is that it's left a gulf in the style of worship and a scarcity of churches offering more traditional services.
As Stancliffe said, the quality of services has suffered and it may well be why many people have voted with their feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I always assumed it was the British that ruined Britain. But hey, if they want to blame it on songs, have at it.
uh oh... I kind of LIKE “Shine Jesus Shine.” What’s the author’s issue? The words seem biblical. Of course, it’s not “Be Thou my Vision” nor “Amazing Grace,” but it ministers to people.
Or we could all be like King David dancing naked in the streets.
Jonathan Wynn-Jones is full of hot air. He writes just to make a buck, and got REAL hard up to accuse Graham Kendrick for the demise of Great Britain. These Happy Clappy Songs are sung all over Latin America, and their church houses are full, running 4 or 5 services a Sunday. Take take...into consideration Jonathan. The Brits have ruined Britain,...practice a little Sharia law here and there, and English Law will be no more.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I’ve got the will, Lord if you’ve got the toe.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Take all the brothers who’ve gone on before
And all of the sisters who’ve knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick’em up front in the offensive line.
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
Amen to that. When church becomes a consumer item music is the sales pitch to keep the shoppers interested in attending. The gospel is oratory not auditory.
As far as Graham Kendrick, I always thought his songs were among the higher quality contemporary worship songs. I agree that a great deal of contemporary worship music is terrible--and sometimes almost insufferable when lines are over-repeated--but Kendrick's songs are usually somewhat better. My problem was that my church at one point would sing "Shine, Jesus, Shine" nearly every week for almost a year, which ruined any appreciation I ever had for the song.
Why? I don't know, but it makes as much sense as what's written in this article.
Besides, who says Britain is ruined?
Funny. The Brits said the same about “The Lambeth Waltz’’. And then when the Beatles hit, they thought that was the end. With the Muzzies taking over you’d think they find that the end of their country. Go figure.
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Can't say I disagree.
SHAME, CHURCHES, SHAME
Tune: "Shine, Jesus, Shine"
Shame, churches, shame,
For this brand of "creative worship."
Lame, music, lame--
That's what you admire.
Spine, churches, spine--
Blending in isn't so "courageous."
Check out your roots,
Church, and sing some real hymns.
Plus, the message is often wrong.
"My God is an Awesome God" is one of them that makes me shake my head. 'Scuse me? Your God? Seems to me you're one of His humans.
Give me "Amazing Grace" or "The Old Rugged Cross" any day. Hymns like that inspire worship, IMHO.
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Same thing in our Masses: every Mass a children’s Mass.
“Those who don’t believe in God will believe in anything.’
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