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ALTERED LYRICS

    I try to always prepare a new worship song for my kids in Sunday School so I'm always on the look out for good material. Sadly, one of the things I've noticed with contemporary Christian music is they tend to sound nauseatingly formulaic. Many have this resounding electric guitar rhythm that cycles through just a few chords; the lead singer has either a high pitched or a gravelly voice and repeats the same lyrics like a mantra. It's such a contrast to the rich unique and (I believe) sophisticated recordings of the secular music that I grew up with before I became born again. (Sorry, I'm just being honest here.) So one of the things I've started to do is replace the lyrics of secular songs with Christian messages. Are you familiar with "Love is the answer" popularized by Englad Dan and John Ford Coley? I think it was supposed to be a Christian song but was censored along the way. (If you are interested, here's a link to MY chords and lyrics and it's about a street preacher watching a desensitized world pass him by.)

    Last Sunday I sang my Christianized version of it and something magical happened. My kids and the grown ups were wide-eyed and actually listening. One of the adults thanked me after church for blessing him with that song. Of course I know the credit belongs not to me but to someone up above. I think he'll remember this twist the next time he hears the song on the radio.

   Somehow in our wanting to belong, we conform to a mold created for someone else instead of discovering our potentials and who we really are. Who knows? Who we "really are" may be just what THEY "really need." Now wouldn't that be a blessing?

"Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, 15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets."
--- 2 Samuel 6:14

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