If you’re like me it’s easy to get the post-convention blues.
Christian conventions always produce songs that divide opinion. Conventions are very often used by musicians to sell songs to people, and many who come back from those meetings try and convince their own musicians and pastors to sing the songs they’ve just learnt. ‘It was awesome. The words were great. The place rocked. I loved it. We must sing it here.’
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I’ve heard all of these bits of feedback from those who’ve been to conventions, and I sit loosely to them all. That’s because all those phrases reflect personal taste to a certain extent. Even, ‘the words were great’ doesn’t sell a song to me. In fact, some use this phrase to imply that we’d be doing a huge disservice to our congregations by not singing the song. If I think that the words are the most important aspect of a song (which, of course, I do), then that’s the argument people will use to convince me to use the song.
