Help Me Develope A Message To Promote My Book (part 3 – whoring)
Posted By Aaron Marcelli on April 9, 2010
I am a whore I do confess I put you on just like a wedding dress And I run down the aisle I run down the aisle I’m a prodigal with no way home But I put you on just like a ring of gold And I run down the aisle To youThose are the words to the chorus of a Derek Webb song titled, Wedding Dress. Jeff, a friend of mine, played the song in our church once and much feedback followed. The song quickly became referred to in our congregation as “that whore song.” The audacity that someone would get on stage and sing a song with such offensive lyrics was appalling to many.
As I and some of the other staff members tried to downplay the negative comments I began to wonder, would anyone have been upset if the song had talked about us being so close to God that we are blessed richly by Him? You will get many “amen’s” in churches across America in preaching about us being sons and daughters of Christ and mentioning our great intimacy and inheritance with Christ. Now, all of that is true, but if we really have that much of a close-connection relationship with God, then the lyrics of the song have to be true!
If the Bible refers to us as the bridge of Christ, the inherited children of God, or those He chose before the beginning of the world (and it does), then when we go out and sin against Him, whoring is EXACTLY what we are doing! When we choose to indulge or give in to temptation we are sinning against our Savior first. Many times we then follow that up on the weekends by putting on our best face, attitude, and clothes to “run down the aisle” and claim our connection to Christ.
Being God’s children is a rather serious thing from either side; for the good or the bad.
Would you agree?
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Hey man I know exactly what you are talking about. To this day that still kills me, how Jeff was treated. I mean if I had a dip stick I would whack everyone that said anything about it. I had that when something hits us so hard in our life that it makes us change our attitude about people. I don’t know about you but I do it sometimes. It just kills me that I am so worried about what people say sometimes, that I forget that they are pointing out something that I really need to work on in my life. Anyways enough of my tangent. Keep it up man!!!