Jesus Is My Boyfriend
Saturday, October 18th, 2008I have been struck by the fact that while many newer worship songs are not bad when it comes to mentioning God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit (though there is ample mention of “LORD,” whoever that may refer to!)…there are a hand full of quite popular songs that make no mention of anything close to the Trinity. Just the other day, I found myself scouring BEAUTIFUL ONE for any mention of the Godhead…not there! BREATHE has been another song that came up in a recent discussion…again, no God reference. Now I will quickly say that I really like both songs, but if they’re used outside of a larger connected context that makes their reference to God more obvious, they can be really nice songs that my friend, Todd Johnson, calls “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs…and he may have gotten that from Bob Webber!
Watch out what you pick! AND, when you combine that issue with a previous blog related to the lack of capitalization of pronouns for God, then there is double confusion.
So, Jubal, once again you have escaped by being way back in Genesis before any of this became so complicated! You’re so innocent!