http://colombara.org/danny/2008/05/08/worldy-crime/ a pulitzer contender for sure Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://colombara.org/danny/2008/05/08/worldy-crime/#comment-517 mike park Thu, 29 May 2008 04:58:17 +0000 http://colombara.org/danny/?p=92#comment-517 That song is amazing. It kinda touches on something I've wondered for a while. Basically, I feel like in my church, and other churches I've visited, the songs cater to wealthy privileged evangelicals. If you're poor, if you're minority (and suffered for it), if you've lost your family in a tragedy, you won't feel comfortable singing songs in my church. Would it be better for the poor and suffering to feel comfortable and touched by God in worship, and have the rest of us be more untouched? Or is it better to just satisfy the masses, and just give special care to the few that are suffering? I really am not sure--my gut instinct is that Jesus always went to make the poor comfortable, but Biblically, I think he meets everyone where they are. My second gut instinct is that there are more poor/suffering people around us than we think, and singing songs like the one above wouldn't be so strange/distant to our congregation. And even if we aren't looking through rubbish for food, I wonder if we would be touched in the same way you seem to be when worshiping God through a song like this. That song is amazing. It kinda touches on something I’ve wondered for a while. Basically, I feel like in my church, and other churches I’ve visited, the songs cater to wealthy privileged evangelicals. If you’re poor, if you’re minority (and suffered for it), if you’ve lost your family in a tragedy, you won’t feel comfortable singing songs in my church. Would it be better for the poor and suffering to feel comfortable and touched by God in worship, and have the rest of us be more untouched? Or is it better to just satisfy the masses, and just give special care to the few that are suffering? I really am not sure–my gut instinct is that Jesus always went to make the poor comfortable, but Biblically, I think he meets everyone where they are. My second gut instinct is that there are more poor/suffering people around us than we think, and singing songs like the one above wouldn’t be so strange/distant to our congregation. And even if we aren’t looking through rubbish for food, I wonder if we would be touched in the same way you seem to be when worshiping God through a song like this.

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