The whole impetus to this song though was Derek hearing Bruce Wilkinson talking to a bunch of book sellers at a christian book convention. Basically telling them that his book will show them how to unlock all the secret blessings that they have been missing because they don't pray his "prayer of jabez" all the time. Bruce had a "alter call" and Derek expected nobody to come because this guy was selling a bunch of...junk basically. But nearly 60% of the room wanted to come up and receive the "blessings" they were "missing". So on this basis Derek basically describes the church (and himself) as a whore (through the imagery found in Hosea) because we so easily sell ourselves for money (and to ideas) that are not biblical just to achieve what we think is happiness and joy (for instance the prayer of jabez). When its clear from the bible that all our blessings are unlocked the moment we trust in Jesus and there should be no need for any other source.
The whole impetus to this song though was Derek hearing Bruce Wilkinson talking to a bunch of book sellers at a christian book convention. Basically telling them that his book will show them how to unlock all the secret blessings that they have been missing because they don't pray his "prayer of jabez" all the time. Bruce had a "alter call" and Derek expected nobody to come because this guy was selling a bunch of...junk basically. But nearly 60% of the room wanted to come up and receive the "blessings" they were "missing". So on this basis Derek basically describes the church (and himself) as a whore (through the imagery found in Hosea) because we so easily sell ourselves for money (and to ideas) that are not biblical just to achieve what we think is happiness and joy (for instance the prayer of jabez). When its clear from the bible that all our blessings are unlocked the moment we trust in Jesus and there should be no need for any other source.