Worship and Anguish

[Marc Proctor]

I’m trying to figure which topics and language is appropriate for the “Sunday Service” setting. Lament is absent from 98% of what I see used on a Sunday service. Yet, most of the time I don’t feel to be full of “joy” (if I’m honest, life is quite hard!). Now, the difference between the Christian and the Nihilist, atheist, etc. is hope. Though I still suffer and feel sorrow, I feel those things alongside my hope in Christ. My hope in Christ doesn’t necessarily remove me from my circumstance, but it meets me in my circumstance. SO, why are we so uncomfortable with the sorrow, anguish, and suffering we all experience in life being represented in a Sunday Service?

If I was to try to write songs that would capture, this aspect of Christian life would there be any recommendations? How would it work?

I wonder if Christian worship seems shallower due to neglecting this. I’m not asking this with any particular pre-conceived answer in mind either, I really don’t know.

[Samantha Martin]

maybe a song about trugging along with God. I feel that both you and Him feel these situations together knowing there is a reason for the struggle in the first place. ANd I would like to here sermons about how we deal with struggles with GOd

[tobymacfan]

We all struggle with things in our Christian life. God brings us through those struggles in life. You can always write a song about something your struggling with in your Christian life and it can help whoever listens to the song be encouraged that God is with them even when they are going through hard times. I hope that helps.