Hallelujah! (if you will forgive the irony). Thanks for the Getty tip, but also for calling out our commercialised formulaic worship recordings of the past few years. I think the same comment applies to CCM as well. I bought myself the latest WOW compilation, and it all sounds the same – or at least the lyrics do. Can we not, with all the creativty God imbues us with, come out with more fresh music? Every now and then someone breaks the mould and cuts a new path, but then it becomes mainstream/conformist too.

Maybe the publishers also need to get back to basics and reward inspired worship instead of what sells. When the machine grows to a certain size it needs a certain size engine to sustain it, and so we have to generate x number of albums a year to cover costs with margin to fund growth. Then we start to go the route of pop(ular) commercial worship, and we get what we have.

When last did you hear a worship album that sounded like actually being intimate worship with believers? I love MW Smith’s ‘Worship’, but are the crowd screaming for Jesus or for Smitty?

FROM PENFIRE:

Thanks for the introduction to these wonderful Christian artists! I have passed on this information to others also, so perhaps we won’t have to repent, like some others we may know !!

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Have a blessed day, Grahame !

In Christ,

Glenda Smith