{"id":1270,"date":"2009-06-03T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2009-06-04T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:24:50","slug":"we-are-what-we-eat-but-we-become-what-we-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2009\/06\/we-are-what-we-eat-but-we-become-what-we-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are What We Eat (But We Become What We Sing)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last Sunday one of the members of our worship team, a 15 year old girl, lead the worship band and the congregation in singing the song “Whatever You’re Doing<\/em>” written by the band Sanctus Real. Lead by her, it was so authentic, and sung with such passion, that across all ages and musical background\/tastes, everyone was able to relate and enter into the experience of the song. It was a reflection of the story of her faith and the remarkable “awakening” that has taken place in her life over the past two year as her faith has come alive, a journey that many in the congregation have been able to share with her. There were few dry eyes.<\/div>\n
“Whatever you’re doing inside of me, it feels like chaos, but somehow there’s peace.<\/a><\/div>\n
Though it’s hard to surrender to what I can’t see, I’m giving in to something heavenly.”<\/a><\/div>\n

I would not be surprised if this song continues to be a regular in our worship vocabulary, because it touched the congregation so deeply.<\/p>\n

This also got me thinking. This is how songs shape us. A moving song reflects God’s work in our midst, and then lives on to shape the language by which we relate to God in the future. In\u00a0 the future, people in our church will relate to God with the metaphor of peace in the midst of “chaos,” in part because they related to this girl’s experience as expressed in song – and the way they experienced God in the musical retelling of the story.<\/p>\n

This song, and the way we experienced it, will influence our theology.<\/p>\n

If you tell me the song themes your church sings the most right now, I’ll tell you what your church’s core theology will be in the future. We become what we sing.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Do you disagree with this idea? Why?<\/p>\n

What songs were present in significant spiritual moments in your life? How did those ideas shape the Christian you became?<\/p>\n

Or the big picture questions: What songs are your church singing the most right now? How will those songs shape the future core theology of the Covenant church?<\/p>\n

And the flip side question: what core theological ideas we hold as priorities now will lose influence in the future because we do not sing about them?<\/p>\n

Rooting for you,<\/p>\n

Andrew<\/p>\n

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