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Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down, fights ‘til I’m found, leaves the ninety-nine
And I couldn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, still, You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah

Oh my, where do I start with this one? This song absolutely stunned me the first time our church sang it. I couldn't even bring myself to sing it as I felt it had so many untruths to it.

Generally I really dislike a lot of the contemporary Christian music as it is way too repetitive and simplistic artistically. I understand it isn't there to entertain but to lead you to a worshipful experience. There is a lot of music that does that for me, but CCM isn't one of them. Good grief, I'm more moved by Josh Turner's "Long Black Train" than a lot of the CCM stuff nowadays

Back to the aforementioned song. When my very devout Christian mom and I were talking about my dislike for CCM I brought this song up. I asked her how a perfectly ordered God can be wreckless? I also asked her how an omniscient God can leave any believer? On this point I understand the song is using a parable to make a bigger point but good grief, make the point a different way. My mom asked her pastor about it and he didn't address the wreckless part but tried to defend the "leave the 99" part with the parable argument. I just told her "I ain't buyin' it"

My wife loves listening to CCM so I have to subject myself to it in order to keep peace and harmony in the home but I can say with a great degree of certainty....It isn't growing on me...ha ha ha

Yeah that sounds like the same conversation my mom had with their pastor... That and basically that he was not going to micromanage the music director, which is why she went to the church elders... I have not heard that song in awhile now, actually.

... wat is CCM?
“ contemporary Christian music?”

I also asked her how an omniscient God can leave any believer?

Oops.. In my rush to type this out I accidentally typed "omniscient" instead of "omnipresent".... Oh well... I think all y'all got the point...lol.