| Caedmon's Call – April Showers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song, as I interpret it, is about stepping out into the world as Jesus did, rather than hide inside the church walls and focus on your own personal morality, as many people in the church tend to do. verse 1: candles inside the cathedral are people who limit themselves confines of church communities don't go outside and let their light shine to the world. It's scary to go out into the "evil" world, but it's what we're called to do. chorus: the rain is uncomfortable and sometimes intimidating, but oh so necessary verse 2: our vain security keeps us away from the people who need christ's love the most - the poor, unclean, foreign, forgotten. "hard morality" are those rules that some churches (particularly the more conservative) hold fast to, but can end up preventing us from doing Jesus's work. For example, hard morality might lead someone to avoid going into a bar, even though that might be the exact place where God's love needs to shine. bridge: church people don't need more church. we've got Jesus and, yes, it's nice to grow in that relationship, but it's a waste of "resources," if you will, to make christians fat on christianity when the "least of these," the neglected, need but a taste of goodness to have their lives completely transformed. |
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