Derek Webb is releasing an album called
Stockholm Syndrome. One track is titled
What Matters More. This song challenges believers to check their priorities and to examine the way in which they are loving or destroying others with their words. The song also encourages believers not to spend their time in arguments but in good deeds. Here are the lyrics. If you’d like to listen as you read
click here. Enjoy!
You say you always treat people like you like to be
I guess you love being hated for your sexuality
You love when people put words in your mouth
'Bout what you believe, make you sound like a freak
'Cause if you really believe what you say you believe
You wouldn't be so damn reckless with the words you speak
Wouldn't silently conceal when the liars speak
Denyin' all the dyin' of the remedy
Tell me, brother, what matters more to you?
Tell me, sister, what matters more to you?
If I can tell what's in your heart by what comes out of your mouth
Then it sure looks to me like being straight is all it's about
It looks like being hated for all the wrong things
Like chasin' the wind while the pendulum swings
'Cause we can talk and debate until we're blue in the face
About the language and tradition that he's comin' to save
Meanwhile we sit just like we don't give a shit
About the 50,000 people who are dyin' today
Tell me, brother, what matters more to you?
Tell me, sister, what matters more to you?
Comments (5)
@radicalramblings - I think I pretty much agree.
Good idea. I just think it could have been better done. I call it as it is in the Bible, and that's something it speaks out against. So, while I may not beat you over the head for such a thing as your "sexual orientation", so to speak, I won't call it right either, when the Bible calls it wrongful. Most people know this about me, and they know the way I live my life. I have some homosexual friends who know clearly the fact that I believe what the Bible teaches. They have been informed in love, and yet, they know I still love them. :) I don't hate people simply for their choices like that. That stuff is between them and God, and me if they bring me into it. I don't bring myself into it. You know? :) Anywho.
I feel like this song is pushing the "tolerance" attitude a lil' too much with it's wording, hence my reservations about it and why I think it could be done better. Sure, we're to love everyone. That doesn't mean we're to tolerate all choices, though, I think. Not just in this area, but just in life in general is what I am speaking on. If the Bible calls it sin (or an abomination, if I remember correctly, on this particular subject), then we, as Christians, need to do our best to abstain. He never said it'd be easy. Only worth it in the end.
Am I making sense? n_n; I hope so. I often feel I don't ever make myself easy to understand. So sowwie. n_n;
But yeah. Thanks for sharing, though. :)
<3, ~*Akarui Mitsukai*~
@akarui_mitsukai - What particular part of the song makes you feel as though it is "pushing the tolerance attitude?"
But as C.S Lewis points out, "Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal." - which means that even if I do love all the people, THAT kind of love will not stop to will the removal of sin.
So, I think I will still debate, for if I won't stand up on something, I will fall for anything.
I don't want to be treated the way I want to be treated. For I am a sinner just like everyone else.
But I want to be treated the way God wants to treat us. With love, but with open rebuke as well. For God loves us too much and that is why He will correct our wrongs.
@c_jamaica - I agree with you. I had never heard that quote from C.S. Lewis before! Thanks for sharing. It says what I often share with people. Very nice. Thanks!
@TheGreatBout - Just the summary of it after reading through it. It sounds to me like it's telling me that I shouldn't say the lifestyle is a sinful lifestyle, you know? Maybe I read it wrong, but that's the thought it put in my mind. It sounds to me like it's telling me to quit speaking out against such things, and just love people regardless. I agree we should love people, however, I don't agree we should remain quite. There's countless proofs of that in God's word. You know?