Dear Worship Leader / Songwriter,
Not sure how you’ll take this, but seriously, you got to choose or write different/better songs. Right now, I am just not able to dig some of your songs/set-lists in the context of congregational worship.
I could simply stop singing them ( I already have), but I seem to have a small voice through this blog and there’s a chance of you actually reading this. If you do, hope you think about this post next time you choose or write songs for worship.
Take it from someone who’s written some not-so-great songs myself!
7 Qualities of Awful ‘Worship’ Songs That Should be Banned From Congregational Worship:
- The lyrics are so full of you, me, how we feel and what we want to do that people are unable to find anything about God in the song (repeated lines of I can/I will/I do/I run… almost to the point of narcissism).
- The language is posing challenges in figuring out if the song is addressing God or some human lover (I love I love I love I love the way You hold me, So in love with You...).
- The lyrics suggest inappropriate imagery (Let me know the kisses of Your mouth, Let me smell the fragrance of Your touch, Sloppy wet kiss… )
- The lyrics use too many predictable rhymes that we’ve seen a zillion times before (love-above, fire-desire, loss-cross…)
- People are going crazy trying to find a scripture connect to the song… there seems to be none.
- We just can’t understand the message in the lyrics (Rise up church with broken wings, We just dance dance dance dance, The Holy Spirit's got me pumpin'…)
- The lyrics are over focused on emotions and what we are supposedly feeling that we are having trouble understanding why it’s a ‘worship’ song.
I like to believe that we can do far better than this if we seriously consider who it is that we are worshipping: The Almighty Father… His glorious Son... The Holy Spirit... The one true, and Triune God!
