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#532: Gather Us In
Jul. 14th, 2020 11:36 pmOkay, I am doing a tag for "title in weird position." Probably won't go back to add it in to everything retroactively, but this is a trend.
This is another nice text by Marty Haugen, combining imagery from communion and the diversity of people who make up the church (young and old, "the blind and the lame," but also "the rich and the haughty"). The one part I'm iffy on is the beginning of the last verse--"Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven, light years away--here in this place the new light is shining." The language of "the church is not a building, the church is people" is common, but the next part comes uncomfortably close to the "don't worry your little heads about the afterlife, that's for the bad Christians and we're not like them" ideology I'm pretty jaded by. And we were doing so well with the contemporary language of "light years"! Grr.
This is another nice text by Marty Haugen, combining imagery from communion and the diversity of people who make up the church (young and old, "the blind and the lame," but also "the rich and the haughty"). The one part I'm iffy on is the beginning of the last verse--"Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven, light years away--here in this place the new light is shining." The language of "the church is not a building, the church is people" is common, but the next part comes uncomfortably close to the "don't worry your little heads about the afterlife, that's for the bad Christians and we're not like them" ideology I'm pretty jaded by. And we were doing so well with the contemporary language of "light years"! Grr.
