277The Reality Behind “Worship Music”

posted by Jeffrey on February 21st, 2007

“Your grace is enough, your grace is enough, your grace is enough for me” is the chorus to a “worship song” I recently heard. My wife and I accompanied some friends to their church service as that is important to them, hence was important to us, and I found myself unable to sing some of the “worship songs” that were played.

The irony lay in the fact that I used to freely sing those very songs when the institution of the church was still important to my wife and I, and we were members of and served in one. This time, however, I found within my spirit a conflict with many of the lyrics in their songs. Why?

Looking back over my experience in the institution of the church, the songs that stirred the love of Christ within me were songs proclaiming and adoring the Love of God, not, however, his “salvation”, “forgiveness”, etc. Do you think the simple truth that God is Love exists deep in the spirit of every human and is stirred from time to time by music, kind words or actions, etc?

I also wonder, as in the above mentioned lyrics, do those in an institutional church give thought to the words that they are singing or do they sing them semi-mindlessly because they are so familiar with the words? “Your grace is enough” is a huge and weighty declaration. How might someone’s life look different if that truly were their belief?

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