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Idol Gives Back: Unexpected

By jase - Posted on April 10th, 2008
I caught most of Idol Gives Back last night, but had to go into a conference call around 9 and missed the below at the close of the show. It's interesting to watch, I both like to see it, but am also weirded out by people who in general have no Christian profession singing praises to God as a performance. I guess even the rocks will cry out, huh?
Crosspost
Submitted by jase on Thu, 2008-04-10 15:59.
I'm not the only to notice this
I missed the whole
Submitted by bartokg on Fri, 2008-04-11 09:15.
I missed the whole episode--I generally watch little of Idol.  I suppose there was a purpose in their fundraiser for them to be singing this song.  It's a great song, and I'm glad that it got air time.  You never know who it will touch.  However, I agree, it's a little strange.  Makes you wonder what the singers are thinking or getting out of the words that cross thier lips.  I felt the performance to be a bit flat--probably just missing the joy of the believer's heart. :-)
One of my friends sang
Submitted by Krista on Fri, 2008-04-11 10:17.

One of my friends sang Handel's Messiah every year for at least 4 years while a non-christian in a choral group.  He said while singing it, he has no idea what the songs meant and never tried to figure it out- it was just good music.  Once he became a Christian he was blown away by the message of it all, all the Scripture, etc. 

 I think alot of us tend to do the opposite... sing secular songs that don't have good messages and don't give it a second thought because we're only singing because we like the music.  So is it any surprise that non-christians would do the same, sing it just because they like the music but not really care what the words are?

 I don't know, just my thoughts.  And over on Josh Harris' blog he says they changed the words from "My Jesus" to "My Shepherd".  I have actually sung it as My Shepherd numerous times, I thought that was just a variation to one of the verses.  Does anyone know?

Yeah
Submitted by jase on Fri, 2008-04-11 11:42.
The My Shepherd thing actually didn't bother me too much, but then maybe that's just me being too lazy to get all up in arms about it ;)  I guess that since I didn't expect to hear the song in the first place, hearing a word possibly changed didn't phase me much.
whether you say "Jesus" or
Submitted by stef on Fri, 2008-04-11 14:49.
whether you say "Jesus" or "my shepherd" there's no doubt who the song is being sung to. I'm glad they did it, but I kind of think it was the producers way of getting the Christian circles either riled or happy. :)
How do we know?
Submitted by 4smoaks on Fri, 2008-04-11 17:01.
I to watched the show but must have been using the restroom during this performance, because I missed it.  Although I do see where some of you are coming from I would have to ask the question,  how do we know they all don't profess to be Christians?  We might assume they all aren't but we can't know for sure.   I do know that the 2 blonds have professed Christianity on the show.  Like Stef,  I think it's great they sang it no matter what the intention.
Yeah... honestly, it bothers
Submitted by stef on Sat, 2008-04-12 14:39.
Yeah... honestly, it bothers me that the producers probably knew a bunch of Christians would become irate over it all. Come on... are we never happy? :)