"We had every reason to think that this was an authorized text because it appeared in a recent hymnal," Bringle was quoted as saying. They assumed the songwriters already had agreed to the change." "Committee members had found a version of the hymn with the alternate text in the Celebrating Grace Hymnal, a Baptist hymnal published in 2010. It was complicated by a foul-up with the rights for the song," he continued. "The decision to drop the hymn wasn't made lightly, said Mary Louise Bringle, a religion professor and hymnwriter who chaired the hymnal committee. Smietana went on to say that debate over "In Christ Alone" is a mix of church politics, the touchy subject of updating hymn lyrics and rival views of what Jesus' death on the cross meant. "Instead, the problem is the word 'satisfied,' which the committee says refers to a specific view of theology that it rejects. The committee says there's plenty of wrath in the new hymnal. "Critics say the proposed change was sparked by liberals wanting to take God's wrath out of the hymnal. "So the committee voted to drop the song," said Smietana. The song's authors, Stuart Townend and Northern Ireland born and now a Nashville resident, Keith Getty, objected. The Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song wanted to substitute the words, "the love of God was magnified." He said that the original lyrics say that "on that cross, as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied." Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.An extraordinary dispute has arisen over a lyric contained one of the most beloved contemporary Christian hymns of the modern-day Church, "In Christ Alone".Īccording to Bob Smietana of USA Today, the committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) dropped the popular hymn because the song's authors refused to change a phrase about the wrath of God. Philippians 3 : 9Īnd be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, `even' that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith: Ephesians 2 : 8įor by grace have ye been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, `it is' the gift of God John 20 : 31īut these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing ye may have life in his name. I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that `life' which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, `the faith' which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Romans 5 : 1īeing therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Galatians 2 : 20 John 3 : 16įor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
When fears are stilled, when strivings ceaseīeing sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. What heights of love, what depths of peace Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
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