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Sunday, March 01, 2009

She's Gone Country...

I come from Southern USA, Tennessee to be more precise. As a result, my life has been bombarded by country music. I have to admit, for years and years I detested this particular genre, but after I moved to Nashville I found that when you live in that city for a while country music invades your life and you must listen to it. After a few years I came to embrace this genre of music and I listen to it quite often.

I heard a song last night (I live in the UK and came across a country station last night while driving through Wales, which is the first and only station of its kind that I have found, so it was a nice discovery) on the radio called, 'Down the Road' by Kenny Chesney and I listened to an interesting lyric. The song talks about this man's life and how he grows and progresses through its stages. One of the lyrics in the refrain made me have a double-take. It says,

'Her momma wants to know/Am I washed in the blood or just in the water.'

Hmmm? This is a very interesting statement about Mr. Chesney's sacramental theology. I believe I know what he is trying to say, but it made me think more about country music and its theological influence on its listeners. The lyric suggests that one can be baptised but not 'saved', but if I understand correctly, to be baptised one (or one's parents in the case of infant baptism) must first profess a belief in the salvific work of Christ.

There are many lyrics like this in country music and I often wonder how influential the theology in country music is on its listeners.

Any one have any other loaded/theological country music lyrics to share? I know there must be a ton of them out there. Let's see how many we can come up with, Good and Bad.

Peace,
Joseph

4 Comments:

Blogger Chance Perdue said...

Charlie Daniels Band - "Long-Haired Country Boy"..."Preacher man talkin' on the T.V./Puttin' down rock and roll/Wants me to send a donation/'cause he's worried about my soul/Well Jesus walked on the water/And I know that it's true/But sometimes I think that preacher man would like to do a little walkin' too.

P.S. Joseph! Haven't talked to you in forever...just started reading this blog and sacramental Nazarenes a few days ago - thank God for folks like you guys.

3/01/2009 8:04 PM  
Blogger Don Schultheis said...

check out my blog at pdnazzz.blogspot.com

5/27/2009 4:57 PM  
Anonymous Pastor Vernon said...

I cannot believe the reply to the letter to the editor in Holiness Today concerning the issue of why small church pastors are not elected District Superintendents. The reason small church pastors are not considered is that they are considered as bastard children of the district. If you don't kiss enough ass, you count for nothing. I have no desire to be a "Super Boy" aka: one who kisses the DS's ass. It's the big church boys who are the one's who get the leadership positions in our denomination. Small church pastors count for nothing. But when it comes to a great message, I would much rather hear a sermon from a small church pastor than a larger church kiss-up pastor.
Most of these large church idiots have fake doctorates: aka: honorary doctorates. Don't call your pastor "Doctor"...lol

10/20/2009 7:11 PM  
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