Stay Away from Jesus

Matt Papa is offering a song from his new album for free. The song is an amazingly bold song full of neglected biblical truth. Here are some of the lyrics:

You won’t ever hear this song on Christian radio
Cause the Jesus that I serve is not safe
He’ll say take Your cross and die
So if you want a comfy life
Stay away from Jesus

He says narrow is the gate and hard is the way
Hate the ones you love and love the ones you hate

Eat my flesh and drink my blood

But if your works are good enough

Stay away from Jesus

He says be either hot or cold,

you can’t serve God and gold

Indifference is the road that leads to hell


So if you’re happy in your stuff


and if 10%’s enough
Stay away from Jesus

He has also posted some insightful articles on music and worship on his blog (expressing some of the same thoughts I’ve had about pop Christian radio). I plan to spend some time reading more of them at a later date, but here are some of his more recent ones:

1. Meet the Golden Calf of Christian Radio

Christian radio, therefore, is for the most part an altar where chipper, inauthentic, boring, unscriptural, untruthful, gospel-absent, ear-tickling, man-centered songs offered to an idol named Becky.

2. An Appeal to Christian Radio and its Listeners

Mainstream christian radio is altogether banal and shallow in both a musical sense and a spiritual sense.  The songs are man-centered and the DJ’s and radio programmers are man-pleasers…..they play the songs that will attract the most listeners to their station, period.  Christian radio is like Joel Osteen in musical form….safe, happy, and untruthful.  It is the TBN of music…a large-scale, embarrassing presentation of Christianity to the world.

3. If there’s not Scripture in the Worship Set, Then it’s not Really a Worship Set

HT: Z

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