Comments on: Shout to the Lord & American Idol?

By: Nasia

Nasia — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:39:08 +0000

Well said.

By: AlexM

AlexM — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:46:03 +0000

Your blog is interesting!

Keep up the good work!

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:21:54 +0000

This whole dialogue is kind of sad. It’s actually pretty upsetting that people, Christians, are spending so much time debating whether or not it was a good thing to air a Christian song on TV while there are people starving out there. We’ve missed the whole point. The song was meant to inspire people to serve, not argue. And Christians, of all people, should be uniting to meet the needs of the poor, instead of battling each other with harsh words over song lyrics.
Just thoughts from another person who loves Jesus.

By: Marilou

Marilou — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:53:13 +0000

Well… I dunno about you.. but the fact that the AI Eight sang so passionately, and with soooo much Spirt BOTH nights is nothing short of AWESOME! I was blessed both nights, and I wish all the negativity would stop! People HE showed up both nights!! HE was praised both nights!!!

The negative stuff (stiller and AI decision to air that crud) will be forgotten… but I think clips of that song will be around for quite some time.

I just wanna say that I am really thankful to the producers of AI for two amazing nights.

By: shine

shine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:49:57 +0000

pgb-here’s my reply to your recent comment: We Christians know who we are singing to or worshipping to when we sing praises…but a pagan world that believe in every religion–and every god-they need to understand that we stand firm in the JESUS who is the GOD of the universe-THE ONLY GOD. Humans cannot make GOD who they want HIM to be. “JESUS” in the song speaks VOLUME-because many may profess to be “shepherds” or even “Christs” but JESUS speaks POWER to the song.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:40:27 +0000

EIG: Who and How am I judging? When one disagrees…….then they are judging. When one agrees or tolerates…….then they are
compromising and cooperative. What if i would say “Your being defensive………why? Would that be fair? Would this empty exchange mean anything? As a christian, I know that I need Christ
Jesus daily, hourly, because I am flawed and a sinner. Being a Christ follower doesn’t mean I have all the answers(none actually without biblical reference), but that He does.. Does this make me weak………no……it strengthens and encourages me and makes me want to do good things for his Kingdom……and part of that is taking a stand for Him. BTW: In this country, we have no clue what it is to experience real persecution.

Question: So why did the put Jesus back in……..Praise God

By: DEC 1

DEC 1 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:23:36 +0000

Cash, cash, cash! Christian people give to charity.

By: pgb0517

pgb0517 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:31:29 +0000

Many Christian artists have written many Christian songs, even worship songs, that omit the name of Jesus, or Yahweh, or Jehovah. They substitute a generic “You” for His name and assume that capitalizing the letter Y makes it special. I call these kinds of songs “Jesus is my girlfriend” music — taken out of a “Christian” context, they could be any secular love song.
“Shout to the Lord” suffered no such lack of meaning by having the word Jesus switched for Shepherd. In any context, this is a great worship song.
So it is very hypocritical for some in the Christian community to raise a stink over this one-word change. For that matter, if “Shout to the Lord” had originally been written with “shepherd” instead of “Jesus,” wouldn’t it still have been a great song? Wouldn’t we still have been singing it with thankful hearts? Wouldn’t it, in fact, still have proclaimed truth?
I am grateful that whatever is going on inside American Idol, they praised the Lord last night. And rest assured that every singer and producer knew exactly Whose Name they edited out. So how about some humility, y’all.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:16:38 +0000

I’m glad they sung Jesus tonight instead, but saying shepherd was still effective. May I remind you that Jesus called Himself the “GOOD SHEPHERD”. There is no pleasing some people. Praise God they had the courage to even put the song in the show. They have completely turned off their non-Christian fans and can please some within Christianity. God has won already, in fact it’s a philosophical category mistake to say God won. Who is God competing with? Saying God won implies that God could have lost. It’s like saying a tree heart bleed. If God can win then He wouldn’t be God.

By: sun

sun — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:13:19 +0000

JESUS WAS SUNG TONIGHT!!! OK so what changed their mind to go back to its original lyrics? hmmm..GOD WON -so all of you who think it doesn’t matter whether or not JESUS in the song is obliterated-well it does…