Great to good

(it's like Coke and New Coke...sort of) 

Great to good

As a musician I enjoy listening to a wide array of musical genres. I especially appreciate groups or artists that are in the top tier of what they do. Sometimes a song that’s been a hit can jump from one style to another and take on a new and interesting life. However, interesting doesn’t always equate to better.  I have commented more than once that a particular Christian group has “the unique ability to take a great song and make it good”. If one had never heard the first recording the assessment might be different.  But when viewed in the context of the original, there is just no comparison.

“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” Colossians 1:19-20

When we view Christ as anything less than the fullness of God we run the risk of making our great God seem like merely a good God.  Putting God in a box that suits only our own needs diminishes the characteristics that might be the very thing those around us are longing for.  Our minds are incapable of fathoming the awesomeness of God…let’s not have our attempt to do so ruin another’s view of the original and amazing work.

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 18