Dear bro n sis,
Do you know wut's the difference between American Idol Season 7 from all the other seasons before? It's a new season, that's why it's different from other seasons? Hmmm... Maybe... Because it's 7 - the perfect number? Hmmm... Also maybe...
The only difference that I know about this season, is, the Lord is acknowledged in it... How? Hehe... Let me tell you (for those who dunno yet)... In the event, there's one programme called "idol gives back", where the contestants will sing for fundraising purpose to support unpreviledged children, worldwide... In this season, guess what they sang? From the title of this blog, you can guess the title of the song ord.. Yup, it's the evangelical song called "Shout To The Lord"!
It had controversies, in fact, alot... The first time they sang tis song, although no one knows what happened at the back of the stage, they started it with "My shepherd, My Saviour...". They sang that on Wed night. But, on Thur nite, they did a reprise with "My Jesus, My Saviour..." back on the line, with a legal reason, as said by the American Idol producers (not to violate the copyright of Darlene Zschech's written song). Whatever it is, thank God that they changed it back to the original lyrics and performed it again =)
Attached down here is the video of the performance of the song... Another one attached, is the studio version, which they sang the whole song, which I believe, with great passion... They're of low quality, but if you want the good quality version of the song, then get it from me =)
However, my story doesn't end there... While you're loading those video and audio, maybe we can have a little bit of think tank here. There was still alot of debates over the issue by viewers themselves in forums, blogs and websites. Some of them thank the Lord for making the song, sang so beautifully in a #1 ranking and watched by at least 33millions viewers tv show in US network (count of viewers not including other countries). While a lot of others did commented negatively. Some said that the show might get boring if it continues to "get religious". Some Christians said that it is defiling God's name to have idols to perform this sacred song. Some said that it's not respecting God if they're not Christians but sang the song for the sake of singing/performing. Some said church songs should be kept in church, not for show... Now, what do you think?
For me, I personally think that, if they're singing this song as:
- A non-believer: Praise God! For praise n worship is a powerful way to be touched by God. When they sang it, they might feel the power of praising and worshipping God, and get to know God through the experience. With hope, they would eventually accept Christ and sing this powerful song in the church that they want to serve God in!
- A performer: Praise God! They are willing to perform this song and proclaim to the world in a tv show that happens to be watched/addicted by the world viewers, that Jesus is the Saviour and the Son of God!
- A contestant: Praise God! For they sang this song even though they knew most of viewers would be offensed of hearing God and Jesus out of their mouth and cause themselves to lose votes!
- A Christian: Praise God if one,some or all of them are Christians! They made a good stand to acknowledge God in front of 33 million audiences on American Idol stage!
- An American Idol: Praise God! Isn't it great to see that even idols have to proclaim that Jesus is Saviour, Lord and Son of God in front of the whole world that is watching the show?
In conclusions, I thank the Lord for He is working! And He is working through medias. As Satan wants to put negative icons in medias to teach negative thoughts to the world, God puts the truth in the media, that would glorify His name, let the world know who's Jesus and eventually bring His ppl back to Him. Praise God...! And to the comments that church songs should be kept in church, well, it's an evangelical song (purpose is to let the ppl who dunno who's Jesus, to know Him). If it's to be kept in church, that'll be a contradiction against the words of Jesus, that said "it's not the healthy that needs a doctor, but the sick"... Agree?
