PC (USA) Dislikes God's Wrath, Wants Re-write to God's Love and Ultimately Rejects Praise Song
In Christ Alone lyrics You may have heard that a major denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA), had asked Keith Getty and Stuart Townend to change the words to this beloved song from "Till on that cross as Jesus died/the wrath of God was satisfied" to " as Jesus died/the love of God was magnified. " When the authors refused, the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song by a 9 to 6 vote decided to exclude the song. Thank God for the 6 sensible ones but alas they were in the minority. Recently, I posted this quote from Randy Alcorn on my church's Facebook page: "Doesn’t our main objection to Hell center in the belief that we are far better than we really are? We may accept in theory that we’re sinners; we may even be able to list some of our sins . . . but we do not even begin to see the extent of our evil in the sight of an all-holy God." Now a church's Facebook page is not usually a place for debate but for information to ...