Thank you for the music
January 9, 2008I went to church on Sunday. It was all age so I had to sit through some hymns. I used to sing hymns but I can’t now understand why. I would say that if I spent the rest of my life unable to sing another hymn I would feel no loss whatsoever.
What are hymns? Someone has sat down and written a song about their take on something to do with God or Jesus or the Holy Spirit. Someone else has thought it sounded good enough to sing and then when there are enough of these people they put them together in a book. Then along comes a denomination of the church and they choose to have this book instead of some of the others to be their hymn book of choice, the one they will give out to everyone when they arrive at church.
There is nothing divine or particularly spiritual about these songs. Some are ok, some are rubbish.
On Sunday we had to sing what I would consider to be the worst of all worlds. No it wasn’t Graham Kendrick (well there was one of his but that wasn’t the worst one). I can’t actually remember who it was but I do recall that it was the most drippy lovey-dovey nonsense about Jesus being the king of everything. I don’t understand how Jesus can be both your friend and example and, at the same time, be the lord of all and king of everything.
How does that work?
January 9, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Ok so if you had to sing something in church what would you prefer to sing? A Bob Dylan protest song maybe? An angry rather than praise song about Jesus?
January 9, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I thought I was quite clear on the whole singing in church malarky… I don’t think that singing a Bob Dylan song would be so out of place and I am sure it’s been done before many times. Given the state of our churches and the poor worship that goes on in them, The Smiths singing ‘What difference does it make?’ would be most apt…