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Corporate Confession Of Sin

09/22/08

Permalink 05:43:03 am, by dissidens Email , 168 words, 259 views   English (US)
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Corporate Confession Of Sin

 

True God and bountiful father, maker of all that is beautiful and good; we acknowledge our ingratitude and our insufferable self-love.

You have created us for worship and given us tongues for praise. You have covered us with loving-kindness and we have not been grateful; we have been proud and selfish and we have neglected your worship. We have loved the evil thing and indulged every unworthy passion.

You gave us eyes but we have not looked, you gave us ears but we have not listened, you gave us lips but we have not praised. You gave us hearts but we have not considered. We have received but we have not given thanks, we have been blessed but we have not honored your name.

We have shown contempt for thy gifts and we have withheld what we owe. We have given what is not wanted and we have offered what is lame and unclean.

We repent of our sins and we implore thee to hear and forgive.

Amen.

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1 Comment from: exlibris [Visitor] Email
I've been reading David Wells' The Courage to be Protestant. This prayer reads like the kind of prayer he would prescribe for his beloved evangelicalism.
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2 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Well, I got to thinking about this after the words attributed to Paul Salamunovich. It is similar to comments I made here long ago: it is a disgrace that we can hear sacred music performed better in a concert hall than what is in the church: If you want Bach you go to Carnegie; if you want sentimental rubbish you go to church.

I think Bach himself would be outraged.

The “reform” we have seen to date has tended to be the self-congratulatory, self-serving bafflegab that confirms us in our prejudices. “Christ-honoring music”, as it is laughably called, is neither; it is sheer self-indulgence. And nothing is worse than perpetuating our good opinion of ourselves.

We need to repent.

As for Wells, I think he has given up on “beloved evangelicalism”.

But in any case, I have.
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