Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

there’s so much pain and hurting/ there’s no time to besearching/ for the needles in the haystacks that aren’t there/ Iwanna spend my time a wearin’ myself out for Jesus/ with thenews a cure’s been found to heal our land/ Stead of makinglists, inventing creeds/ that aren’t concerned with people’sneeds/ I’ll show ‘em how to touch the nail scarred hand/ Don’twanna spend my time prayin’ prayers/ Bombarding heavenwith requests to rain down fire on saints who care [unclear]/ Inour methods we may differ, but if Christ the Lord we live for/May we not forget the enemy is OUT THERE.”is song contains half-truths and subtle errors, which aremore dangerous than plain and obvious errors. While it istrue that God’s people are to be concerned about sufferingand are to show people how to “touch the nail scarred hand,”it is not true that preaching is to be limited merely toanswering questions people have. e preacher is instructedto preach the whole counsel of God and the whole Word ofGod (Acts 20:27; 2 Tim. 3:16 - 4:1-2). e Bible warns that itis apostate people who will desire teachers who teach whatthey want to hear and what they feel a need for (2 Timothy4:3-4). is prophecy sounds very much like what theGaithers are singing about.It is also not true that it is wrong to “make lists” or “inventcreeds” that aren’t concerned with people’s needs. e listsand creeds mentioned in this song refer to doctrinal studiesand statements of faith. Doctrinal studies must, first of all,faithfully represent Bible truth, regardless of whether or not itmeets “people’s needs.” Sound Bible doctrine does meet man’sdeepest needs, of course, but that does not mean that Bibledoctrine meets the felt needs of unsaved or carnal people. eunsaved or carnal man does not feel he has a need to be toldhe is a sinner or that he is has no righteousness before God orthat he is to repent or that he is to die to self or that he is toseparate from the world or that there is an eternal hell, etc.,but sound Bible doctrine tells him all of these things.125