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I Can't Help It

It has literally everything that people hate about CCM: it's gaudy, emotional, simple, repetitive, and to be blunt, it plucks the emotional strings that make people fornicate. When "B16" was writing about "Dionysian worship," trust me, this is what he meant. I would never use this in Mass, ever. And yet...

It touches me. "Spirit, lead me where my trust is without borders..." is exactly what I need to pray if I want and hope to be saved. Yes, I said that just so. Try not to die; it's definitely the drift of the Bible. I digress.

When some of you mock "Jesus is my boyfriend" songs, what I actually hear you saying is, "I don't want to feel that intensely about God; I don't want this thing to hurt me and cost me, and possibly make me cry. That's what women do." Stop lying; that's the entire substance of everything Mark Driscoll has ever said about what's wrong with American Christianity. Are you sure that's how we want to have this discussion? "Manly" as the negation of "womanly"?

Instead, we need to realize that what stirs us is not identical to true liturgy, and yet, we should not fear to be moved to love and to act. Just because what we know about about revelation is secure, protected by the Church, and our liturgy is not made but given, it doesn't mean we have to be sterile. He wants our hearts, and that's going to cost. It might even make you cry.

So this has a place. It does a good. I daresay a few need some estrogen in their theologies.
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