Beautiful one I love you
Beautiful one I adore
Beautiful one my soul must sing...
Do we really think this helps men worship Jesus? That it's natural for men to speak this way to another male being? Or that beautiful is even a biblically valid term for Jesus? (The answer to that last one is "no" - in the bible that word describes things other than God).
While worship music is not the sole reason for the lack of men in the church today, it certainly does its fair share in making men feel like a fish out of water.
Here's the Murrow test
If you're a man, try singing (or even saying) these lyrics to another man. Your brother, dad or best mate - someone you love, but in a non-sexual way.
Chances are you'll get a weird look in return. This is not a normal way for men to express non-sexual love. The more church sings to God like this, the more men will stay away from church, and from God.
PS. I looked up the full lyrics on the web. The page included a computer-generated Google ad - based on the frequent words in the page. Based on these lyrics, Google chose "Beauty courses" as the most relevant ad. I think that tells us something.
2 comments:
A lot of church songs seem to be man-excluding now that I think about it. Do you know some that might be more man-including?
Hi Laura,
Yes, there are rather a lot. I might do a compilation post of some of the more blatant ones.
But there are also a bunch that are just neutral.
David Murrow (from the 'Murrow test') has a particular liking for the old hymn "How Great Thou Art". It's not all touchy feely, but expresses an enormous amount of respect for an awesome God.
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