I know some of you probably just skim over the words to songs that I post…but this song is seriously worth reading/hearing. Plumb is a “Christian” group that actually challenges “Christian culture” with its music and lyrics…calling Christians out on things that just aren’t working. I heard this song tonight, and it just gripped my heart in so many ways. I have put in bold the words that seriously are so what I am feeling right now.
DC Talk also has a song that speaks to this…”What have we become?”
We go to church because “it’s what we’ve always done…” We sing songs to the Lord whether or not our hearts are really worshipping…In fact, our campus pastor said last semester that we shouldn’t sing the words to songs if we don’t really mean them…otherwise, it’s basically hypocrisy. But we do it…I do it…why? Because I’m concerned about what other people will think if I’m not singing (especially because I’m a worship leader in the youth group and on worship team for church)…and, it’s what I’ve been “taught to do”, so I sing, all the words, all the time.
For the past week specifically, I have become increasingly frustrated with “Christian culture.” I have been realizing more and more just how right Brian McLaren is in his book “A New Kind of Christian.” Some things just aren’t working! I am interested in seeing the movie “Saved!” just to see how accurate their portrayal is of what we have become…because, as I work with youth each week, I am aware of how their generation views “the ways things have always been done,” and I know that it just doesn’t reach them effectively, for the most part.
When are we going to stop playing games?
This post isn’t complete–because there is so much going on in my mind right now, that it is difficult to put it all together right now. But here is the song…please read the words…listen to the song if you have the opportunity. I’ll post more regarding this, I’m sure, in the near future. I hope this doesn’t shock my readers too much…it’s been under the surface for awhile now…
Candycoatedwaterdrops
by PlumbWhat is this
Mass confusion
This crazy way we’re living
This emptiness we’re passing out
Like candycoatedwaterdrops
I’m spilling out my thoughts
You’re spilling out your gutsAnd I can’t help but stop and think that
If the world stopped spinning
If the end was beginning
Would you even notice if I wasn’t there?
If the world stopped spinning around“All that’s worth dying for
is already dead”
An empty religion
you’ve learned to accept
When nothing means everything,
your daily routine
You go through the motions
like a helpless machineYou’re spinning ’round
You’re spinning ’round
And I can’t help wondering
You’re spinning ’round
You’re spinning ’round
And I can’t help wonderingWhen the answers to everything
are right in your hands
You lose your conviction,
but you can’t help standing
On the one thing that held you
for so many yearsYou ask for forgiveness
and hold back the tears
Even So, Joy 