Question: what's the difference between these lyrics and verses from the Song of Solomon which are an allegory of Christ and the church?
Is it just phobia of singing intimate words or what?
This is kind of what I was thinking. God, Himself, uses some fairly intimate language to illustrate His relationship with us.....His bride. It's His idea, really. I think a lot of it, as long as the message is not anti-biblical, is a matter of taste. For instance, I don't do country and we don't "twang" @ NLC. As long as I'm pastor, we won't do that! Don't mean to be offensive....I don't preach against it, but that's not who we are and it's not who I am.
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Falling in love with him over and over and over and over again. It gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by oh what a love between my Lord and I. - - - - -
I don't think there's anything wrong with these songs, but that's JMHO. I guess as a man, it would be a bit weird to sing some of them. I remember hearing one about "the kisses of your lips" and that was a bit much for me.
I'm with Soldout on this one. Some of these songs are just a bit too much for me.
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I don't mind singing about loving God, or saying that I can sing of His love for ever, but this kind of stuff just emasculates the church and chases more men away imo
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Maybe it's just me too but there is one song we sing that I actually like...except for one part where a very deep voiced male sings and then it seems all the females in the praise team repeat what he says without the guys...since I can only hear female voices singing back up I honestly feel kinda stupid being part of some dudes female backup singers lol..
Sorry but it sounds limp
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
I've heard this phrase "Jesus is my boyfriend music" before and it's really stuck in my mind. As I was reading through some of the lyrics to these songs (that I know and really like), I almost wanted to blush. They are a little "boyfriendy" aren't they? Don't know if that's really good or bad, but I can see where a lot of men aren't comfortable singing these songs.
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