If you’re looking for a self-help Ted Talk, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Music that gets the most attention in happy-clappy churchianity tends to veer awfully close to ‘Jesus as my prom date’ territory.
If you’ve actually blown the dust off your Bible and looked inside, you’ll know that the God you meet in those pages is NOTHING like the the Tony Robbins self-help guru image most churches tag him with.
We think we’re somehow doing God a favor just by showing up, without asking ourselves is the thing we’re showing up to do lines up with what he actually wants from us. How many folks with that attitude know that question has already been asked and answered by the prophet Amos?
That’s what this song is about, as Doug describes it in his own words:
Here’s a fresh song my buddy Mike McCreight and I fed to AI to see what it would spit out. If you like country music and hate silly me-monkey branches of evangelicalism you’ll love this. The scriptural backing for this tune is from Amos 5:21-24 (MSG) which says…
“I can’t stand your religious meetings.I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions.I want nothing to do with your religion projects,your pretentious slogans and goals.I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes,your public relations and image making.I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.When was the last time you sang to me?Do you know what I want?I want justice—oceans of it.I want fairness—rivers of it.That’s what I want. That’s all I want.”
Source: Clash Daily
