A Different Street

I can completely relate to Stacey’s frustration with her hymnal. She writes:

This week I’m preaching about something along the lines of being genuine in our thanksgiving to God, rather than just using praise as yet another way to favorably compare ourselves with others and try to claim ownership of God. I wish for hymns about these things, but I’m not sure they exist, and they certainly do not exist in our hymnal. Instead I have things like “Blessed assurance, Jesus is MINE,” and “MY Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art MINE.”

When I was choosing music for the contemporary (early morning) service at The Church That Shall Not Be Named, I ran across this a lot. Even contemporary praise music can be almost belligerent in tone. It got old after awhile, which was why I was glad I could sometimes use secular music. (Scandal!)

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