Tuesday, May 31
Make Your Own Bad Church Music
(1) Pick an innane gerund. Capitalize it.
(ex: sending --> The Sending)
(2) Fish around for a theological concept you don't really understand. It won't matter that you don't really understand it, because we'll be ignoring its precise meaning, anyway.
(ex: The Great Commission)
(3) For the tune, take a folk song from a Catholic country, but insure you pick one of the few folk songs that are not actually religious. Irish drinking songs work best.
(But, I'll use "Row your boat")
(4) Slow the melody and boost all the notes an octave, to ensure that no man would ever want to--or be able to--sing your new song.
(5) Make the afore-mentioned gerund sound like it is the very reason God has created us. Do not mention God any more directly than that. Instead, capitalize words such as "Justice," "Peace," etc. Refer to Heaven in the form of banal promises.
(6) Add exclamation marks.
Made for the Sending
Out to all the world!
Peace and Justice,
Rest for men,
Out to all the world!
Ooops -- one more change: the awkward excising of masculine pronouns.
Made for the Sending
Out to all the world!
Peace and Justice,
Rest for them,
Out to all the world!
(1) Pick an innane gerund. Capitalize it.
(ex: sending --> The Sending)
(2) Fish around for a theological concept you don't really understand. It won't matter that you don't really understand it, because we'll be ignoring its precise meaning, anyway.
(ex: The Great Commission)
(3) For the tune, take a folk song from a Catholic country, but insure you pick one of the few folk songs that are not actually religious. Irish drinking songs work best.
(But, I'll use "Row your boat")
(4) Slow the melody and boost all the notes an octave, to ensure that no man would ever want to--or be able to--sing your new song.
(5) Make the afore-mentioned gerund sound like it is the very reason God has created us. Do not mention God any more directly than that. Instead, capitalize words such as "Justice," "Peace," etc. Refer to Heaven in the form of banal promises.
(6) Add exclamation marks.
Made for the Sending
Out to all the world!
Peace and Justice,
Rest for men,
Out to all the world!
Ooops -- one more change: the awkward excising of masculine pronouns.
Made for the Sending
Out to all the world!
Peace and Justice,
Rest for them,
Out to all the world!
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