Have your hymn books been replaced?
Jeff Apthorp
Recently Dr. Lowell Davey shared the following thought provoking words on the Perspective program on the bible Boradcasting Network. They read best set to the tune of the Hymn "O Worship The King".
O worship the slides, projected above.
They�re taking the place, of hymnbooks we love.
We can�t read ahead, and we can�t read the score,
We can�t harmonize and sing parts anymore.
O tell of His love, but don�t mention sin.
We cannot offend, or crowds won�t come in.
Forgetting His wrath, and His anger don�t sing.
We�re gracious and kind, and non-threatening.
Our bountiful hymns, in which we delight,
Are stogey and old, the words they aren�t right.
We can�t memorize them, don�t know what they mean.
Their authors are dead, and their length is obscene.
Frail children of �NOW�, we sing what we can,
Our culture has giv�n, a short attention span,
We�ll sing and repeat the Ad infinitum,
While making their writers a neat tidy sum.