It's The Same All the Way Around

This past Wednesday I tried something different. I'm the worship leader for a ministry on my college campus and Wednesday was the first meeting that was actually on campus. We usually meet at a church not far from the school. Anyway. The message was centered around the news of Christ and how we're supposed to lose our life for Him, so I decided to do the Coldplay song Yellow. It can be interpreted as God talking to us in lines like, "I came across, I came across for you. And all the things you do. Cause you were all yellow." Yellow is a color usually associated with bruising, cowardess, or even death. We were damaged when God sent Jesus to save us. There's also a line at the end that says, "For you I'd bleed myself dry." This is exactly what Christ did for us.

That's just the explanation of the night.

I'll be honest and say that it didn't go over that great. We started the song too late and the students were all standing there in an awkward situation.

I'm kind of upset because someone said they didn't like "the secular songs in worship."

I guess I'm not old-fashioned or I'm a little more tolerant, but to me, I hate to label things. I heard someone say something like, "You know what happens when you get pigeon-holed? They shit on you."

Things with labels cause division. Political parties cause division. Denominations cause division.

All truth is God's no matter where it's found. It doesn't have to be sold at a Christian bookstore, or even say Jesus in the lyrics, to be considered truth. I just don't understand why we have to pull something like music aside and say, "This is mine. This is 'Christian', everything else is for the heathens."

It's all God's.