Pastor Andrew Wilson had that idea in mind as he wrote this week about examining Christian song lyrics that undermine or fail to capture what we know to be true about our Trinitarian God. Wilson acknowledges that, to some, such scrutiny could sound "insufferably pedantic."
I run AV at my church, and I’ve seen the worship band ask the same kinds of questions and skip songs or adjust them as a result. We recently sang a Housefires song with the line "This season doesn’t tell my story." They worried that it downplayed suffering in the Christian life and changed it to "This season isn’t my whole story."
As a journalist who believes that words mean something, I respect leaders who are willing to overanalyze what we say and sing in order to get it right.
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