The best spiritual practice you could perform is to spend the next year simply trying to live the implications of your favorite hymn. My friend, the late theologian and attorney,
Edward Fudge, once said, “We all sing ‘All To Jesus I Surrender,’ and we’re all lying when sing it.”
While Christians have spent centuries debating hymnody, one topic left off the table is
whether we believe what we sing. Edward’s words jammed into my spirit. Every beautiful once-in-a-while, I’ll catch myself in worship and swing back to the insight in Edward’s words.
“Am I lying while I’m singing?”
Oftentimes I am.
You are too, I suspect.
O Holy Night
This Advent, my ears have been ringing with the…
