balanced worship: need new songs?
hey y’all. yesterday i posted a question on my personal blog:
looking at the growing pool of contemporary praise and worship songs (this means excluding the vast sea of hymns that we might still use), what topics do you think the Church could use? what topics are missing from that pool of contemporary praise and worship songs?
what do we need current Christian songwriters to write about? what truths/experiences/emotions/etc. are we leaving out?
Here are some of their answers:
the wrath/justice of God
transparency and humility (like some of David’s confessional psalms)
fear of God
study & spiritual disciplines for believers
praise through uncertainty
honor/respect/fear of the Lord (more reverent songs)
Great Commission
laments/repentance
the Resurrection
objective songs: less about “me” & more about Him
so, looking at this EXTENSIVE list, i thought we could talk through some of these topics. spend a post on “the Resurrection” and throw some songs into the pile that hit on this. then do a post on the “wrath/justice of God” and you guys give suggestions of songs that might hit this topic… etc etc etc.
LET’S START HERE: what TOPICS would YOU add to this list?
after compiling topics, i’ll start a new post hitting one or two of these needs.
one thing i value about this worship leading community is that i’ve learned SO much from y’all! looking forward to your input again!
Freedom in Him
Grace
The Cross
the best place to look is at the psalms. the range of emotion and topic there is really what we need as a church.
We need songs for
ash wednesday.
Songs of sorrow
healing
confession
the cross
he is risen
his blessings
the word
facedown type of submission
reflective
reflecting the heavens
sacramental worship
pray of our action
Micah 6:8 type songs
Revive us songs
thanksgiving
grace
forgiveness
honor
reverent
break the chains
simple few word songs
be still
peace
Mandy,
I’d add topics about Holiness and the Fear of God … songs about the aspects of God we don’t like to talk about. Joy and I have been talking a lot lately about how people really don’t fear God anymore. All we hear so much about grace, mercy, love, forgiveness.
Of course, I guess it wouldn’t be very pleasing or worshipful to sing songs about God’s wrath and justice … because most of us in the church are sadly living lives, although “under grace” that are so deserving of his wrath and mercy.
Oh well – that’s a soapbox for another blog later this week.
Fred
Maybe more stories of faith type songs.
Keep the “to Him” songs but add in the “about Him” and then add in the “what He is doing songs.”
ha…i posted a long relpy and it completly disapeared…I will attempt soon to write something
klampert: i rescued it from the spaminator…. the list was just too spamly for it to ignore!
thanks for coming back to see if it was here!
ha spamly..nice
I would say that we need songs how about even leaders have moments when they are unsure of things. We are not meant to be on spiritual pedal stools.
I am a songwriter, and I came across this site and I see that you would like a few songs written, if interested then let me know. My name is LaVell and I have written over 30songs for other artist within 2yrs. Again if interested let me know, you can see some songs I’ve written on my site as well as myspace.com/mandybarry. These songs are not gospel but I have written gospel songs as well. I look forward to hearing from you. GOD BLESS