Comments on: Dan on Camp Music http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/dan-on-camp-music/ "For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dan http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/dan-on-camp-music/comment-page-1/#comment-2727 Dan Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:42:12 +0000 http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/?p=318#comment-2727 It can help to write out the words and think about what is there. 'the word in flesh.' Needs some explaining It can help to write out the words and think about what is there.
‘the word in flesh.’ Needs some explaining

]]> By: hayesy http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/dan-on-camp-music/comment-page-1/#comment-2705 hayesy Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:29:38 +0000 http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/?p=318#comment-2705 <p>Yeah, good points. What about contemporary hymns? How Deep The Father's Love etc.</p> <p>A cool guy I know once wrote a mad song called Behold The Cross. How's that one? I suppose you want all the Christians on camp to already be familiar with the songs you're singing...</p> Yeah, good points. What about contemporary hymns? How Deep The Father’s Love etc.

A cool guy I know once wrote a mad song called Behold The Cross. How’s that one? I suppose you want all the Christians on camp to already be familiar with the songs you’re singing…

]]> By: Dan http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/dan-on-camp-music/comment-page-1/#comment-2702 Dan Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:46:38 +0000 http://www.thecrazyaustralian.com/?p=318#comment-2702 Thanks for the plug Hayesy. I actually disagree about hymns. Hymns are fantastic. Lots of them are propositional (some aren't though), but they often use language that assumes a Christian heritage. On the camp I was on for instance the music guy wanted to sing Rock of Ages. 'Let the water and the blood, from his wounded side which flowed. be for sin the double cure, wash me from its guilt and power.' Too much! The people we are interacting with are generally secular. Which means they have no framework of christianity to work from. That means each concept needs to be clearly explained. There is too much explaining to be done. I actually wouldn't ever sing a hymn on a non-christian mission style camp unless it was amazing grace, which people already know and which is quite simple conceptually. Thanks for the plug Hayesy. I actually disagree about hymns. Hymns are fantastic. Lots of them are propositional (some aren’t though), but they often use language that assumes a Christian heritage.
On the camp I was on for instance the music guy wanted to sing Rock of Ages. ‘Let the water and the blood, from his wounded side which flowed. be for sin the double cure, wash me from its guilt and power.’
Too much!
The people we are interacting with are generally secular. Which means they have no framework of christianity to work from. That means each concept needs to be clearly explained. There is too much explaining to be done. I actually wouldn’t ever sing a hymn on a non-christian mission style camp unless it was amazing grace, which people already know and which is quite simple conceptually.

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