I don’t believe Nathan was faulting Mars Hill for having no pulpit or being flashy. I actually credit them with this. Too much “stage show” in worship services now-a-days.

Michael, I have David Crowder Band albums and have seen them live multiple times. They are not a “seeker-sensitive” band. They worship God with the talents they have and are unashamed to proclaim the gospel (the WHOLE gospel > see their song “God of Wrath”). To say that they are “seeker-sensitive” because they use a banjo in some songs and have a “bluegrass” feel is ridiculous. This is who they are.

Gosh, some people are looking quite hard to find faults in others.

David Crowder Band – Wholly Yours lyrics
Artist: David Crowder Band lyrics
Album: A Collision
Year: 2005
Title: Wholly Yours Print
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Complimentary “Wholly Yours” Ringtone

I am full of earth
You are heaven’s worth
I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity
You are everything that is bright and clean
The antonym of me
You are divinity
But a certain sign of grace is this
From the broken earth flowers come up
Pushing through the dirt

You are holy, holy, holy
All heaven cries “Holy, holy God”
You are holy, holy, holy
I want to be holy like You are

You are everything that is bright and clean
And You’re covering me with Your majesty
And the truest sign of grace was this
From wounded hands redemption fell down
Liberating man
But the harder I try the more clearly can I feel
The depth of our fall and the weight of it all
And so this might could be the most impossible thing
Your grandness in me making me clean

Glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
So here I am, all of me
Finally everything
Wholly, wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly
I am wholly, wholly, wholly
Yours

I am full of earth and dirt and You
[ Wholly Yours

I really like the song, Oh Praise Him, I do not like David Crowders new music. David Crowder is kind of a funky, quirky, ragamuffin type, in looks that is, but probably in Brennan Manning’s definition too. BUT, of course that is another subject…

I will continue to sing the 3 Crowder band songs I like, just like I will continue to sing Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, a song written by a guy who eventully fell away from the Lord ironically after writing “Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.” I don’t know, I think he was struggling at the time he wrote it. But, I think he should have clung to “Oh to Grace How Great a Debtor, Daily I’m constrained to Be, Let Thy Goodness Like a Fetter Bind my Wandering Heart To Thee.” Did Mr. Robiness get right? I hope so, but nevertheless, I will still sing that song..:)

Just saying…

cover: to record or performe of a song previously recorded by another performer (or in this case, written by someone else)

If you follow the links that I provided in my post, you will go to lyrics of various David Crowder songs, originally penned by those men.

Thanks for the comment. My goal wasn’t to critique every single aspect of the experience. I wanted to try to recount as accurately as possible what happened without a confusing amount of commentary from me.

NW

“Would that be when they’re covering John Wesley, John W. Peterson, or Francis of Assisi?”

How does the Crowder Band ‘cover’these people?

Are you saying they pattern some of their music after these men? Hopefully, they aren’t copying some of their theology (at least for Wesley and St. Francis). I was mainly speaking about all the different styles of music that Wikipedia had listed for the band (folk, bluegrass, alternative, worship). If a church is using bluegrass, or alternative, or rock… worship music, then this would fit with the seeker philosophy of “giving the people what they want”.

“We came into the side of the auditorium and were greeted with the sound of the new Coldplay album coming through the speakers.”

You are too kind with your assessment. I would have fault them on this first point.

You wrote, “Who would be arrogant enough to say that they really know which side of the stage would be the front?” Is that what they say?

We have strong disagreement with some of their theological meanderings. However, if you are going to “blog” your visit there and offer a supposedly neutral evaluation of their praxis (of course, from a “biblical” perspective), why not cut the side-comments and deal incisively with the actual experience?