Saturday, June 24, 2006

Lazy Post

So is what follows below a long overdue call to biblical unity or is it an example of self righteous naivette. I find myself vasilating. If only it were so simple.

Amalgamate
(From Five Iron Frenzy's Upbeats and Beatdowns)
You've got a cause now I heard you braggin'
Always the fastest one on the bandwagon
So sit down and I'll tell you What I'm feeling, What I'm feeling
For lack of better words you are stealing, you are stealing
all of my joy away from me. Whatever happened to our unity
We cut ourselves our own limbs we severed
It's time for us to pull together and stand, as one
all eyes are pointing towrds the Son
Drop your fists now, what you resent
Let's not forget who we represent
and fall to our knees in unity.
Another day now, another doctrine Another monkey wrench in the system
Some folks kneelin', some just listen Some fallin' out of the pews from twistin'
I don't care kids, how you do it,
united we stand and we'll pull through it
All were dead once, all enslaved,
now pull together 'cause we've all been saved
We cut ourselves our own limbs we severed
It's time for us to pull together and stand, as one
all eyes are pointing towrds the Son
Drop your fists now, what you resent
Let's not forget who we represent
and fall to our knees in unity.
The only Jesus the world's gonna see, is the Jesus in you and me
So pick up your cross and stop your swiningin'
stop and look at the stink you're bringin, 'to this body with you fightin'
You bust more knuckles than the wrong's your rightin'
What's important is where we relate, it's the meaning of the word Amalgamate
We cut ourselves our own limbs we severed
It's time for us to pull together and stand, as one
all eyes are pointing towrds the Son
Drop your fists now, what you resent
Let's not forget who we represent
and fall to our knees in unity.

2 Comments:

Blogger Ando said...

Ok, ok, I'll comment.....

I guess it's hard to say what to make of these lyrics without knowing exactly what doctrines they're referring to. I guess we could assume one is worship styles from verse two. Sure, some things that become issues shouldn't, but there are some hills that are worth dying on.

10:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For any Christian who's joy has been stolen by Christians, I think it rings pretty true as a call to biblical unity, but not really an overdue one. The Apostle Paul called for unity 2,000 years ago (Romans 15 and Ephesians 4).

But to any Christian who themselves is hung up on self-righteous naivety, it probably seems like self-righteousness to their superior sensibilities. Cant tamper with the walls of your sterile Christian bubble... Who can hack a challenge?

8:03 AM  

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