Church Hymns (and Hers) That Got on Your Nerves

[Lev]

"I'm the One"...there was only one song leader that led this song and even some of the members complained about what a downer the song was. "Every time I sin on earth, I feel that I'm the one. I'm the one...who shouted 'Crucify!' I'm the one who stood and watched him die." Talk about depressing...

Definitely. Another one along those same lines was "Does He Still Feel the Nails?" In the COCs I was affiliated with, this was one of the newer, more 'campy' songs that was only found in the supplemental songbook. I hated it. I'm not sure how popular of a song this was throughout the COC writ large. The first line is:

Does he still feel the nails every time I fail?
Does he hear the crowd cry 'crucify' again?

No, you biblically-ignorant songwriter, he doesn't! And you wouldn't have to ask if you knew anything about the concepts of redemption, sanctification, justification, or new creation.

Lev

[ena]

I must have missed out on the "lower burning" and "seaman / semen" thing.....was rather naive then so not surprising
it went over my head, but imagine how tuned in all of the adolescent males were to any hint of naughtiness.

"Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" is a song about a lighthouse guiding seamen to port safely. This is not easy to do especially at night. Fog horns also serve this purpose when fog kills the ability to see far. This can be frightening and risky. Ships running into rocks is all to common. GPS does help. This is a nice one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7BnG6Epow8
How you circumcise a whale?
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It takes foreskin divers.

[ena]

We had a guy in the congregation who, when standing, would keep the beat by tapping the back of the pew in front of him -- until a deacon pointed out that was as mechanical as clapping, so he was told to quit. No mechanics of any kind!

How about beatboxing.

[GuitarHero]

Alllllll siiiiiixxxx veeeerrrses offff Just As I Am.

Really, any COC song. Or maybe it's just the way that they sing them, which is slow, wretched and horribly drawn out. I knew song leaders who could make "O Happy Day" sound like the song leader had just been diagnosed with cancer, HIV, jock itch and shingles all at once.

I really don't care for any religious music anymore. Most of it is treacly, maudlin, creepy, guilt-trippy or just nonsense. It doesn't help that I am no longer a believer.

[illuminator]

True stories. 1) Never allowed to sing I've got that joy, joy, joy, joy! Down in my heart because it was popularized on The Beverly Hillbillies. 2) The old biddy I mention in posts objected to The Builders Song (you know, The Wise Man and the Foolish Man) because of clapping and jestures. It was a children's song!

[musicman]

"Night With Ebon Pinion" was one I didn't like...even after I learned what "Ebon Pinion" really meant. The armswinger at one C o C I attended used this song frequently before the "Lawrd's Supper" and took it at a dirge tempo.

Another one is L.O. Sanderson's "Be With Me, Lord." We sang it ad infinitum in chapel at Lipscomb.

Fortunately I escaped the C o C before "Blue Skies and Rainbows" and #728 B came on the scene!

[musicman]

Another one is "Just As I Am."

C o C would use it as an invitation song frequently.

When I was organist of a Baptist Church, I had to endure this hymn several times through each night during revivals. The preacher would stop the singing after a couple of verses and start screaming "...if you don't come down this aisle and accept Jesus tonight you may die in a wreck on the way home and wake up in HELL!"

"Just As I Am" is a fine hymn. It tells how we have no plea except that the Lamb of God shed His blood for us. However, it has been turned into a guilt producing, emotion laden thing by many churches.

[Lev]

When I was organist of a Baptist Church, I had to endure this hymn several times through each night during revivals. The preacher would stop the singing after a couple of verses and start screaming "...if you don't come down this aisle and accept Jesus tonight you may die in a wreck on the way home and wake up in HELL!"

There's no monopoly on fire and brimstone.

Also, this is off-topic but I've noticed two posters here with similar names. Are musicman and MusicMan826 one and the same or are we just fortunately blessed with multiple musical men here?

Lev

[MusicMan826]

Also, this is off-topic but I've noticed two posters here with similar names. Are musicman and MusicMan826 one and the same or are we just fortunately blessed with multiple musical men here?

Lev

Two different people on the old board I was going go use musicman but since it was already taken I threw the numbers at the end since I wasn't feeling too creative at the time. Then I stuck with the same name when we got the new board.

[illuminator]

How many verses were there to Just as I Am?

Also we were forbidden to sing any "camp" songs such as Countdown, L-O-V-E, Happiness Is the Lord, the Salvation Song, How Did Moses Cross the Red Sea. I miss those.

Honestly, what was wrong with this song? Because denominations sang it?

Love Love L.O.V.E
Love Love boundless and free
Jesus left Heaven to die on a tree
This was love, love, love!

Done, Done, D.O.N.E
Done, done, done perfectly!
"Finished!" Christ cried, when on Calvary He died,
So it's done, done, done!

Come, Come, C.O.M.E
Come, come, "come unto me";
Jesus receives whosoever believes,
When they come, come, come!

Mine, mine, M-I-N-E.
Mine, mine, eternally;
Wonderful lovem Jesus came from above,
To be mine, mine, mine!