O.K. Get over the mullets and the porn-star moustaches, and the fact that the Fourth and Forest church of Christ never would have sung this song so fast, even if the pews were on fire and we needed to finish and get out.
But we would have sung it a cappella, just as Jesus intended (smile), and we would have sung it in four-part harmony, and we would have sung it like we meant it. This is as good a personal theology as any, I guess.
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Love it! Love it! Love it!
I think this IS as good a personal theology as one can have. I base my own personal theology on the last part of Matthew 25 more than anything else where Jesus describes those who have ministered to him by ministering to those around them in need, even when not one other soul was witnessing their good works.
“Cup of water in my name . . . ” Jesus said.
I strive to live that way.
Dee
Nice.
A part of mine comes from this: Not all boats which sail away into the darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. – Stephen King, “IT
I’d completely forgotten this, but I remember when I read it I actually set the book down to think a moment. Thanks, Tod!