Forge 1

The first speaker from last night as the Forge intensive open night was Matt Jacoby , who is the lead singer from the band of Sons of Korah. This is a band who put the words of the psalms to music. He sang a few of their songs and basically talked about how todays worship music tends to all be like love songs and while there is a place for that and many of the psalms are all about love and joyful etc. many also are not and talk more about the struggles and hurts of life. He also mentioned about how his spiritual life is full of struggles. But really he didn't talk much and talked about each of the songs he sang.

(My thoughts- guess it gets back to what 'worship' really means. so easy to just assume it's singing praises (often in the form of a love song) to God. Thats often the diff between 'worship songs' and other christian music but thats not always how we feel or where we're at. Why to we tend to ignore everything else in worship?
Last sunday night I had Ben Harper's 'Better Way' played in church and before hand a was a bit unsure if it was really appropriate to do so, but that was totally where my head was at, at that moment so i decided to anyway. Was this selffish of me? to be honest I was prob not in the best mood to lead a worship service last sunday night in the first place. But how does this work in a group worship situation? how do we find a balence?

Also related, one of the guys at church last sunday night was talking about how he was begining to think that anger is another form of depression and how the church tends ignore this but he read one of the psalms of which the last line is ' the darkness is my closest friend'. Imagine a worship song based on that line!!! Don't think that ones in the box of songs to choose from in the back room of the church!)