This Sunday in worship we debuted "Like a Lion", a song by Daniel Bashta, a worship pastor at a church outside of Atlanta.
It's a heavy song. The first time I heard was two years ago, when the David Crowder Band covered it for Passion 2010. And, to tell the truth, initially I was really put off by it. It's a very raw-natured song at it's heart. The lyrics of the chorus go like this:
Recently, however, I've been awakened to the plight of my generation. A generation who's primary witness to God's love is given through politicians looking for sound bites (on both sides of the many aisles) or TV pastors who do the same before getting caught up in the many ways to do things that are illegal or immoral.
It's to this generation, this feeling throughout the world, that Daniel Bashta is singing for. Not only is God not dead, God is alive, God is relevant, God is hope, and God wants to roar into the world through us.
At the raw-centered heart of this song is a call for God to come down into this world run amok like a Pentecostal fire:
It might start as it does throughout the Word ... We ask for help.
It's a heavy song. The first time I heard was two years ago, when the David Crowder Band covered it for Passion 2010. And, to tell the truth, initially I was really put off by it. It's a very raw-natured song at it's heart. The lyrics of the chorus go like this:
My God's not dead: he's surely alive,It's the "My God's not dead" part that bothered me. I mean, whoever said God was dead? In seminary, we did cover for a second in my intro to theology class the "God is Dead" theologians, but I didn't really pay attention there. I didn't see the relevance. I did, and do, realize that there are people in this world that do not believe in the Almighty. Or, should I say, an almighty. But for people to devote time to theorizing on the death of God, and how we killed God, just kind of struck me as silly at a time.
And he's living on the inside, roaring like a lion!
Recently, however, I've been awakened to the plight of my generation. A generation who's primary witness to God's love is given through politicians looking for sound bites (on both sides of the many aisles) or TV pastors who do the same before getting caught up in the many ways to do things that are illegal or immoral.
It's to this generation, this feeling throughout the world, that Daniel Bashta is singing for. Not only is God not dead, God is alive, God is relevant, God is hope, and God wants to roar into the world through us.
At the raw-centered heart of this song is a call for God to come down into this world run amok like a Pentecostal fire:
Let heaven roar!How do our faith families speak to the people who don't find relevance in knowing God's salvation? Specifically to our struggling millennials?
And fire fall!
Come shake the ground,
With the sound of revival!
It might start as it does throughout the Word ... We ask for help.