Sunday, May 2, 2010

My Own Personal Kissing Booth!!!

Im going to give you three links:
The First is to a JesusCulture song: http://tiny.cc/us0f9

Second, To a David Crowder*Band song: http://tiny.cc/wjaia

and thirdly, a blog by the original writer: http://tiny.cc/oilg5

The issue here is the lyrics "heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss/unforseen kiss"

Now.
Theologically, "sloppy wet kiss" paints the wrong picture of Christs' penal substitutionarey atonement for us...(mainly the fact that nothing Christ does is sloppy) and the fact that sloppy doesnt fit the rythmic syncopation with its 1 less syllable.
"Unforseen kiss," however, is both logically and theologically the better choice...(something about how the Jews did not expect the Christ to come as a servant and the picture that Ephesians 5 paints a.k.a. Christ as our husband taking us into himself while we didnt deserve it.)

But this post is more than just correcting what i see as an issue in my circle of influence...
To my worship leader coherts,
neither lyric is better than the other.

"Unforseen Kiss" is my prefered version
But "sloppy wet kiss," especially when the writer explains the context and meaning, certianly isnt anything heretical or wrong.

What our job is to look at our audience, and decide what would be most edifying to that body.
I would argue that there are few bodys int he DFW areea that will take "sloppy" over unforseen
but thats not the issue in more indie and artsy communties like the Northwest or the UK

The point is. with all this kissing going on, wheres MY action???