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Thread #54271   Message #840076
Posted By: Haruo
03-Dec-02 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Sign the Creed (So.-Baptist Political)
Subject: Lyr Add: JESUS SAVES
When I first heard the phrase "7-11 praise choruses" I thought first of convenience stores. However, I have since been told that in its origin the term is shorthand for "praise songs of seven words, sung eleven times".

Here's the latest from BaptistLife.com:

>Title: Who Saves, What Saves
>Tune: JESUS SAVES
>By: "Rock"
>Theme: This hymn attempts to give voice to the confusion among moderate baptist regarding salvation as they try to bring their beliefs in this area into line with acceptable SBC practice.

  1. We have heard the Joyful Sound: Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!
    How could we have been so wrong: Jesus Saves? Jesus Saves?
    Misunderstood at every turn, believe his grace it is enough;
    So we thought, now we wonder: Jesus Saves? Jesus Saves?


  2. His blood was shed and body bruised: Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!
    Paul and Paige new better still: Jesus Saves? Jesus Saves?
    We thought we had salvation, infidel and skunk alike.
    We were wrong, so very wrong: Jesus Saves? But not us!


  3. Theology and doctrine: Jesus Saves? Jesus Saves?
    All along you may have thought: Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!
    You trusted him to forgive, Now you hear a dif'rent word,
    Inerrancy has replaced Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!


  4. All a muddle and confused: Who Saves? What Saves?
    We look around, we don't know: Who Saves? What Saves?
    Then we hear from west of here, Pickles saved, there is a way.
    We have hope! Dill, Sweet or Relish: Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!

You probably have to be a disaffected Southern Baptist, probably also an alum of an SBC seminary, to get the part about pickles. Has to do with some high Southern Baptist mucky-muck (perhaps "Cardinal" Al Mohler?) who said something along the lines of it doesn't matter whether pickles have souls; if we say our seminaries are to teach that pickles have souls then that is what they are going to teach, by gum...

BTW, Rock's lyrics don't scan very well in my opinion. Still, the song is very popular at BaptistLife and folks there seem to be singing it without difficulty; Rock even won the coveted "Golden Spur" award for it.

Haruo