Tnx, Zech.
And I like Topcat’s comments:
Jesus Christ is not my prom date. He is my Lord and Savior. I don’t want to jump in the back seat of my car and fog up the windows with God, figuratively speaking. I want to worship Him.
While I think a lot of modern praise music is quite good, one thing that bugs me about some of the songs is the lack of respect for God.
While I think a lot of modern praise music is quite good, one thing that bugs me about some of the songs is the lack of respect for God.
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For example?
The car bit was cute . . . but wholesale misplaced, I think.
I think God longs for us to be as enraptured with him as a young man is with his young woman—not simple lusg—but the cherishing enraptured kind of utterly devoted love mind, soul AND boyd.
And, I think it’s not per se because God NEEDS that in any way which we could construe as need . . . but that He knows
OUR GREATEST BLESSING will come from such an attachment, attraction, devotion.
And, given the BIBLICAL metaphor of the physical union between husband and wife being a model, symbol, metaphor for Christ’s Love for The Church . . . and that WORSHIP is a kind of physical acting out of our passion for God . . . I think the cutsey slam is grossly ill-considered and simply wrong.
In terms of some of the praise songs etc. not respecting God—I think that’s nonsense.
Respect is felt and shown in a diversity of ways by the diversity of God’s human creations.
And, Scripture has times and places of
I SAW THE LORD, HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND HIS TRAIN FILLED THE TEMPLE. . . . . and there was silence in Heaven . . . prostrate . . . threw their crowns at His feet . . . HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
And
COME UNTO ME LITTLE CHILDREN . . . EXCEPT YOU BECOME AS A LITTLE CHILD, YOU SHALL NOT MAKE HEAVEN . . . . . . CRY ABBA, FATHER, DADDY!
Certainly praise songs CAN be SUNG with no respect; glibly, mindlessly . . .
So can the Halleluja Chorus and Amazing Grace.