To say God didn’t want to dwell with Himself for all eternity (contrary to John 17:5) means heaven was lonely and incomplete until we arrived. I don’t understand what this means: “You didn’t want heaven without us So Jesus, you brought heaven down.” This has an air of saying, “Heaven wouldn’t be heaven without us.” Heaven is heaven for one reason and one reason only-God is there. The heavens are roaring, the praise of your glory, for you are raised to life again.” What could be wrong with singing of the beauty of the name of Jesus? In the bridge of the song, we hear, “Death could not hold you, the veil tore before you, you silence the boast of sin and grave. The song was the Dove Award winning song of the year in 2017. It was first released in 2017 on Hillsong’s 25th live album Let There Be Light.
Sung by Brooke Ligertwood, this is a wildly popular song, and it could easily hit half-a-billion views on YouTube. Christ’s church should have no fellowship with Hillsong.Ģ) “What a Beautiful Name” written by Ben Fielding and Brooke Ligertwood
Albert Mohler has noted, “Hillsong is a prosperity movement for millennials.” In addition to their false teaching, this is an organization that has been covering up pedophilia. But it doesn’t belong in corporate worship on the sole basis that it comes from Hillsong church. Again, if you just wanted to sing this song in your car, that would be one thing. If you asked them to actually define their terms, you would get a heterodox answer, contrary to the sound teaching of God’s word. But Joel and I believe two different things when it comes to understanding “I am what it says I am.” The same is true of Hillsong. They hold up a Bible and say, “This is my Bible: I am what it says I am, I have what it says I have, I can do what it says I can do.” I believe that, too. Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston invites his congregation to stand up and repeat this kind of creed before the preaching begins. When they sing, “I am who you say I am,” what exactly does that mean? Does the singer understand that only those who are followers of Christ are children of God, or are they singing that everyone is a child of God? But the mere fact that this song comes from Hillsong makes it questionable. If the song existed by itself, I would say there’s nothing questionable about it. I am who you say I am.” “In my Father’s house, there’s a place for me I’m a child of God.” And like any Hillsong tune, many of these lyrics are repeated over and over and over again. “Who am I that the highest King would welcome me?” “While I was a slave to sin, Jesus died for me.” “I am chosen, not forsaken. Fielding and Morgan are worship pastors with Hillsong. It was released in June, 2018 as the first single from Hillsong church’s 26th live album There Is More. The official video for Who You Say I Am has nearly 100 million views on YouTube alone. The same writing duo that brought us the chart-topping song Mighty to Save currently has the most popular modern praise song in the world. The title of each song is also a link to a video, if you’d like to hear it.ġ) “Who You Say I Am” written by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan I’ll give the title of the song and who the writers are, I’ll mention which lyrics are good and which are questionable, and I’ll conclude each entry by answering if the song is acceptable to be sung in corporate worship. The following are the top 10 most popular praise songs according to CCLI. If you wanted to enjoy these songs in the privacy of your home or singing along with them on the radio, that would be one thing. I’m going to examine not only the theology in the lyrics of these songs but also of the artists who sing them. The doctrine in even the songs that we sing must be as sound as the preaching. Why is this important? Because the Bible says, “Test everything hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).
Some of those songs are still in the top twenty even now, but I think the list has changed enough (and enough time has passed) that I’m able to do my review afresh. But when 2017 rolled around, I looked at CCLI’s top ten songs and saw that the list was almost exactly the same as the year before. This was a critique I planned on writing annually (Christian Copyright Licensing International releases their top 100 list every 6 months). It’s been three years since I first reviewed the most popular worship songs heard in church.
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