Comments on: Safety and Comfort (lyrics) http://lutheranforums.com/blog/2009/06/23/safety-and-comfort-lyrics/ no longer walking away when God opens a door Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:39:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: B. Nitz http://lutheranforums.com/blog/2009/06/23/safety-and-comfort-lyrics/comment-page-1/#comment-351 B. Nitz Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:40:43 +0000 http://lutheranforums.com/blog/?p=178#comment-351 Yes, I've long understood the underlying problem which inspired these lyrics. Sometimes it is at a local level, and other times it is the large scale bending and watering down of gospel to accommodate a power structure (check history for numerous examples) Maybe these lyrics could be run thorough an inverter so they could be sung as a positive reinforcement of the glimmers of real Christianity which are found deep down in any church, regardless of how bland, insular, self-comforting and political the congregation has become. Like the glimmer of diamond in a mountain of sand within all of us within each of us He alone lets us stand 'gainst Satan's tyranny that lives within unhearing numbers and within ourselves. Yes, I’ve long understood the underlying problem which inspired these lyrics. Sometimes it is at a local level, and other times it is the large scale bending and watering down of gospel to accommodate a power structure (check history for numerous examples)

Maybe these lyrics could be run thorough an inverter so they could be sung as a positive reinforcement of the glimmers of real Christianity which are found deep down in any church, regardless of how bland, insular, self-comforting and political the congregation has become.

Like the glimmer of diamond in a mountain of sand
within all of us
within each of us
He alone lets us stand ‘gainst
Satan’s tyranny that lives within unhearing numbers
and within ourselves.

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