Shaun "Puffy" Groves notes the dearth of current worship songs about the church. (Or, really, he notes someone noting this.) And that guy says church-singin' is too individual these days. That guy misses all those old, classic hymns that weren't so silly-personal, and more church-focused, like "The Church's One Foundation." Why don't we sing more of those? that guy wonders.
We need to bust out more old songs about the church.
Dang thing is, I can't think of any. Wait: "Come to the Church in the Wildwood." We sang that a LOT growing up.
The chorus: "Come to the church in the wildwood. Come to the church in the vale. No spot is so dear to my childhood, as the little brown church in the vale."
Now THAT was a song about a church. Verses 1, 2, and standing on 4. We worshiped with it, man. Put your hands in the air.
I'm still not quite sure what that was all about, but it certainly wasn't too personal. Unless one considers the personal invitation: by singing it, we were personally inviting each other. Actually, it was an implied command, sung in unison: (You) come. NOW. (Punk.)
I'm not sure where the wildwood is, but the song says it's right there, you know -- in the vale.
I don't know what a vale is.
I figure if I find the vale, WHAM! -- wildwood. Then it's only a matter of time and -- KAPOW! --church. Let's pray.
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