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Beauty Will Rise - Steven Curtis Chapman
A “Killer” Question…
Posted by Brian Thornton on June 29, 2009
Matt Osgood, from blog.worship.com, asks this question:
If someone who’d never been to church before came and listened to a typical set of worship songs, who would they learn more about? You or God?
That’s what I call a “killer” question, because it kills the self and refocuses us on the proper and biblical and God-pleasing object of our worship, God Himself. Perspective, even when singing about the truths of God, matter a great deal. Osgood also asks these questions:
For example – do we sing about the cross and resurrection because it means ‘I am saved’ or because it represents God’s victory over the power of evil? Do we sing about God’s faithfulness because it means ‘you will never let me down’ or because it means that God will fulfill every promise he has made in Scripture? Do we sing ‘You are amazing’ or ‘You amaze me’? Is it all about God? Or is it about God in terms of what he means to us?
In my lesson last week, one of the things I said was that I am convinced that the three most favorite words, not in the world, but in the church, are: me, myself and I. Check your worship songs this week and see how many times they (or variations of them) are used. You might be surprised.
Read Matt’s full article HERE.
Ian said
The test for “singability” of worship songs is whether they can be played & sung without a worship group. So many are written by singer-songwriters who have an entertainment ministry.
When you try to play them on an organ for the congregation they don’t work.
There are great modern songs by singer-songwriters including Stuart Townend & Keith Getty – but they are hymns. e.g.
In Christ Alone,
How Deep the Father’s Love,
From the Squalor,
Creation Sings.
I love to use the Psalms in poetical modern versions (as in Praise!)
Ian