Sometimes things just seem to happen. Sitting in church Sunday I thought I had finally started to work out some lyrics for some music I wrote five years ago, I usually get these things at the most random times. Anyway, I pulled out my notebook and started writing and what came out was not what I had in mind. Interesting how that works out, but fun for me nonetheless. Its in these random times that I really feel like God is using me to say something, sometimes uplifting things for myself and those close to me but usually its a rebuke for something in my own life or something that I see thats wrong around me. Usually I don’t have an outlet to share it with anyone and even if I did the “me” that was here three months ago wouldn’t have done it. This time however, I feel that I should share it with you even though it sucks to have to. Maybe you see and know this, maybe you don’t? Maybe you agree and maybe you don’t? Maybe its still you and maybe you need your eyes opened? Our “American Church” is in need of change. It’s in need of growth, a Kingdom growth. I know this has already started, I see it everywhere and right now I get to be a part of it and I know that I may seem a little ostentatious to have written a poem that speaks for the whole American church, but I didn’t really mean to. It all came out like word vomit. Something inside of me seems to be hearing this from somewhere. Am I the only one……
Anthem of the Modern Church
Please forget that I’m here
Forget I occupy this body made in your image
Let me live in peace
Let me drown in ignorance
No responsibility to man or to you
No guilt
No blame
Let me die in a self made apathetic shell
Alone and unaware
Blameless in my own eyes
Straight back
Clean hands
I carry a cross made of air
I’ve never felt its weight
Though blood adorns my hands
I’ve no eyes to see it
So forget I am here
And forget I gave you my life
Lord may this Anthem no longer be for the majority. May we become more like Jesus and may we bring your Kingdom to this dead world.
