The old message was that all we are beggars and all we have to offer to God is our pride, our deceit, and our sin.
The new message is that God is lucky because we have so much love to offer him.
He is now considered our equal and our peer. The mention of any sin in a contemporary worship song is out of the question.
SUCH an overstatement! How about Chris Tomlin’s “Amazing Grace” chorus:
My chains are gone
I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior
Has ransomed me
and like a flood
His mercy reigns
Unending love
Amazing grace
That’s just one example. And the traditional hymnody is being revoiced for contemporary worship (not the melodies, the instrumentation) to rave reviews.
Now, it’s also possible to be proud of your humility. Just a word of caution here.
All worship music was contemporary worship music when it was written. Are those who write worship music today less worthy in the eyes of God to write such music than those who wrote contemporary Christian music 100 years ago?
Is it somehow a sin to compose worship music in the 21st Century?
You are obviously listening to a different set of songs than I do!
“Stronger” by Hillsong
There is love that came for us
Humbled to a sinner’s cross
you broke my shame and sinfulness you rose again victorious
Faithfulness none can deny through the storm and through the fire there is truth that sets me free Jesus Christ who lives in me
[Chorus:]
You are stronger you are stronger
Sin is broken you have saved me it is written Christ is risen Jesus you are Lord of all
No beginning and no end You’re my hope and my defense you came to seek and save the lost you paid it all upon the cross
So let your name be lifted higher
Be lifted higher be lifted higher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PeWwnhmZ3A
“The Stand” by Hillsong
You stood before creation
Eternity in your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand
You stood before my failure
And carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon your shoulders
My soul now to stand
So what could I say?
And what could I do?
But offer this heart, Oh God
Completely to you
So I’ll walk upon salvation
Your spirit alive in me
This life to declare your promise
My soul now to stand
So what could I say?
And what could I do?
But offer this heart, Oh God
Completely to you
I’ll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the one who gave it all
I’ll stand
My soul Lord to you surrendered
All I am is yours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5iZBTNYrk