Lyrical Weaknesses

Proclaimer: The content in this blog post may be slightly offending to some people or some people may not agree, but I am just merely trying to state what I think.

So lately I have been thinking about worship songs. A lot of times I feel like we sometimes end up singing worship songs without really realizing what were singing. I know that we know that we are worshiping God, but are we thinking about what the words we say really mean?

Because of this realization of possible unrealisation of meanings I decided to start thinking about what I am actually singing when worshiping. Sadly what I have realized happens to not always be very good. I have listened and read the lyrics of some of our worship songs and realized that sometimes either the words and phrases are grammatically incorrect, confusing, or not always saying something correct.

I don't want to specifically pick out a song and explain what I think is wrong about the lyrics because I don't want to be going around critiquing and putting down people's work. However, I will say that I think that we should start to put real meanings into our worship songs. Put lyrics straight from the scriptures in, I don't want to be singing words that aren't correct to my savior. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I feel like there are a lot of Christian rap songs out there that are much more meaningful and doctrinally sound than most worship songs out there. However, this doesn't really fix our lyric problems because rap doesn't really work for congregational worship.

I think we should really evaluate the lyrics of the songs that we sing in church. If the words are not doctrinally sound I personally don't what to be singing them. Why waste my time singing songs that don't make sense or are not quite correct. However, I must say that even if the words are not exactly correct much more of worship is really about the heart and what we mean to say to God. To be honest I don't really think that its too much of a problem if the lyrics aren't exactly grammatically correct if our hearts are in the right place. Having good lyrics are very beneficial, but not exactly crucial.

Know what your saying when you worship, don't be just haphazardly sing the words. Profoundly examine what your singing so that you are not just "singing words".

Disclaimer: Now I'm not saying that all worship songs have problems or that the ones you play at your church do, but I'm saying that this is what I have realized from some of my observations of songs around me. I'm not trying to hate on worship songs, but just to examine them.