Rant
As most of you who are reading this will have a Facebook or at least will be familiar with it, I won’t take time to explain as I’m going what some things mean…and be prepared, I’m going to rant!
On Facebook, there is a new group called ‘Lets get Tim Hughes to number one’ and their aim is to all buy a Tim Hughes song off iTunes and get him to Christmas number one. Now before I go any further in my rant, I would like to say now that I have nothing against Tim Hughes personally and consider him a good musician and good singer and he has written good songs…however, let’s not get him to number one.
Why? Because this is their reasoning for the group “It’s about time some Christian music was all powerful in the charts and therefore on our national airwaves. So the plan is for as many people as possible to download one song two weeks before Christmas and get Tim Hughes into the charts on downloads alone!! The song we thought is most suited for was Happy Day on the Holding Nothing Back album. Please please please support us on this mission all it will cost you is 79p on iTunes!! If Chris Moyles can get Billie Piper Honey to the bee and Peter Andre Mysterious Girl back in the charts this is not beyond us!!”
I struggle not to swear and be very angry when reading this…Christian music shouldn’t be all powerful, God is all powerful not Christians and certainly not music, deal with it!
Secondly, it is not a mission, I see what you’re doing there, you are using the term mission to try and stir Christians up into thinking this is a holy quest or something…and do you know what, in the grand scheme of things it really isn’t that holy!
Thirdly, what will getting him to number one do? Do you stupidly think that if people hear ‘Beautiful One’ or whatever on the radio that suddenly they’ll get down on their news and pray? Now, everything is possible to God and I am not doubting that, however to think that this will absolutely happen is naive to say the least and idiotic if you’re really asking me
Fourthly, this is one of my biggest problems with Christians (and that includes me - yes I am a self-hater!) that they just don’t get it at all! Bringing in the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven is not done by buying a song that sounds like a Embrace or Athlete cover off iTunes, bringing in the Kingdom is done by giving a crap about people, not just the cool, hip, rich, clever, good looking ones, but the people that no-one else is, the smelly, ugly, boring, poor, homeless, broken, hurting, lonely people. It’s about offering you’re lives to God in humble worship, not just singing that with you’re dam hand in the air waving it around (yes, like you just don’t care) but actually offering it to him, now that is blooming hard work but that’s what it’s about, do you really think spending 75p (times however many thousand) on a rubbish song will change the world, do you really think it’s the best place to stick your cash? Or do you think that changing the world will mean actually living for God and doing what he would want for you?
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Amen brother.
Makes you wonder what Tim himself would think of it all…
Second the above…
Thirded. If thats a word. Whatever, I agree!
Bringing in the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven is not done by buying a song that sounds like a Embrace or Athlete cover off iTunes
Best thing you have ever said
Fifth’d. Get Cliff to Christmas number wang instead…
Gareth mate, I looked at the group and chuckled to see this post:
‘I think this group is such an amazing use of everyones’ time. It truly is the best way to interact with the world around us - cheating the charts, what a great idea.’
Brilliant
6th’d - Tim and every other worship leader don’t need another excuse to inflate their heads!
Holy Songs aren’t bad in the charts though - gotta love Shackles and Cold Water by Damien Rice (love that song!) and many of U2s but not for the fact to spread the word but because they’re just great songs and happen to sell and if people are heavely influenced then great!
I’ve joined the group. Posted some things in it too.
Well done paul…good work mate
very true posting!
I get what you’re saying and I do agree, but I’m going to buy Happy Day in a bid to get it into the charts. It’s an awesome song and I think it’s time we did get some openly Christian music into the mainstream. Personally, I think having some good Christian music on the radio as opposed to the vapid, shallow rubbish that basically promotes sin, can’t be a bad thing! And I have several non-Christian friends who, after listening to some of my Christian music started asking really thoughtful questions about my faith. Music is such a powerful medium that we can’t simply scorn the idea of Christians getting into the charts, music is one of the many ways of witnessing and bringing God’s Word to those who might be open to it.