So you like the music of Rich Mullins, Ragamuffin Band- promoter of the Ragamuffin Gospel (author, Brennan Manning, a Roman Catholic). What do you find enjoyable about simplistic, childish, casual/irreverent language such as:

Quote
Oh when He rolls up his sleeves He ain't just puttin' on the ritz,
Our God is an awesome God…
His return is very soon and so you'd better be believin' that
Our God is an awesome God
Or his song, "The Love of God," where he refers to God’s love as “reckless?”

Quote
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, I cannot find in my own
And he keeps this fire burning, to melt this heart of stone
keeps me aching with a yearning, keeps me glad to have been caught
In the reckless raging fury, that they call the love of God
Do you not think that words, melody, harmony, form, etc., should reflect the textual and emotional maturity, richness, and Godward focus of the biblical text? IMO songs much like Mullins are like the NIV version of the Bible! They are just a paraphrased version of something not truly established in sola scriptura. WORDS are very important. I do not like to sing about a casual god who is “rolling up his sleeves” or “ain't just puttin' on the ritz!” These words just don’t seem to encompass real worship to the real God. They seem to have lost the “spirit and truth” of the real Gospel. I cannot call Mullin's phrases reverent, can you? All that said I do think Rich Mullins was a Christian, however one that was mis-directed when it came to the genuine worship of God.

This and many other songs today Christians enjoy "clapping" their hands to. However, how many here can say they have ever done a study on the Jewish liturgy of hand clapping? Haven't most just Americanized "clapping" to what they think "clapping" means? A serious study here may surprise some (i.e. Psalms 47 has nothing to do with rhythmic clapping to music)!

Last edited by J_Edwards; Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:02 AM.