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To: EliRoom8
Bye, John, I didn't travel 20 miles and devote 2.5 hours of my Sunday evening to hear some rock-a-billy tunes disguised as praise.

Well we agree there.

One of my criticisms of some worship music is that is sometimes too "Up With People" in its delivery.

Some of the modern Christian worship songs are awful. My wife and I call them "7-11" songs, because they repeat the same seven words eleven times.

Now this is one area where I believe the RCC had something right - to wit - we should ensure we give God the reverence He is due. The RCC still enshrines God with that reverence, and so did almost all the old style Hymns of mainline Protestant denomiations from years ago. Today, almost all (not all, but most) Christians churches have modern worship services.

Is God personal? Absolutely - and that relationship with Christ is at the heart of being saved. We know Christ, and He knows us.

For many, they think they are in God's family, but they are not.

Matthew 7:21-23

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

But a believer in Jesus knows Him. However, I still try and give Him the respect and awesome reverence that He is due.

An acquaintance of mine used to refer to Christ as "My buddy JC" - and it bothered me to no end.

140 posted on 12/14/2017 3:20:49 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I think that many of those who are irreverent and overly familiar towards the Lord are going to hear an “I never knew you” from the Lord.

Here is one of Isaac Watts overlooked hymns played simply and reverently on two guitars. I hope you like it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUatOdMpAWA&disable_polymer=true


143 posted on 12/14/2017 3:28:32 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: SkyPilot

“An acquaintance of mine used to refer to Christ as “My buddy JC” - and it bothered me to no end.”

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You have a point.

At the same time, the Lord DOES invite us to speak to him as our Father, and that means a relationship that’s close enough for a little humor and a certain amount of informality.

But a certain amount of informality =! disrespect, which is a danger.


149 posted on 12/14/2017 6:11:56 AM PST by Luircin
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