My Beef

Okay, so Sunday at SDCRC I noticed something that really bothered me. Let me start by saying that you can sing PW songs in worship as long as you have the right intentions. However, a lot of the PW songs sung have nothing to do with anything right. I mean, mindlessly repeating the same chorus over and over again is not right. I admit that God is great, but do you necessarily have to sing it five times in a row or tell everyone else to sing with you? Jesus did a great deed on the cross, taking the place of us, but When I Survey the Wondrous Cross is a song of reverence and The Wonderful Cross is just a mindless chorus. If you are going to sing the song sing it all as one song and be done with it, singing it all in the same way. You can rejoice that Christ did die for man on the cross, but when you emphasize the chorus over the verses or vice versa you are doing some kind of injustice."Oh the wonderful cross, the wonderful cross, bids me come and die and find that I may truly live. Oh the wonderful cross, the wonderful cross, all who gather here with grace draw near and bless your name." I just don't understand how that goes with " "When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died,My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.See from His head, His hands, His feet,Sorrow and love flow mingled down:Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,Or thorns compose so rich a crown?" Those just don't seem together because I want to jump up and down during the chorus and I want to stand very reverently during the verses. And, I want to challenge anyone who actually reads this to make me understand the "raising hands to heaven" when you are singing songs. I am pretty sure that most of these people don't understand what they are doing. Yes, it is great if you feel that you are getting closer to God by raising your hands, but when you are singing a personal song, which has NOTHING to do with God or Jesus, what are you actually doing? Do you raise your hands to heaven for Amazing Grace and O Lord Our God How Lovely? (You will not know that second song unless you have a focus on psalms in your church.) Be intentional in what you do. If you can prove the right intentionality for what you do in worship I am happy for you. But, so much worship anymore is just so shallow and is not God-centered. Okay, so maybe I don't give the best example. Just to throw a rod in things, would you raise your hands for both "This is my Father's World" and "Blessed Be Your Name"? Of course, maybe it is based on the instruments used for worship. But wait. There were people doing it for organ songs too.
When you read the Ten Commandments in church, hopefully you still do this, do you say that it is God's law of love? I admit that the Bible does show God's love to his people, but weren't the Ten Commandments given so that people lived properly? No human could keep these commandments perfectly so Christ had to be sent. That was love by God, since none could do it. However, these commandments are still given because man is sinful and prone to sin. However, at what point are the Ten Commandments just ignored? The Commandments used to be read to show how sinful humans really are. It seems like now they are just about saying "hey, these have to be read, but beyond that we have nothing to do with them." We have to admit that we are sinful. Total depravity does exist. Man's whole nature is corrupted by sin.