How can we be not of the world if we can’t even see our own failings? We already know in the same way iron sharpens iron we sharpen each other (proverbs 27:17) but how often do we actually use that chance to be sharpened as the church? And to me at least, it’s one of those times. I thank the Lord for songs like this, because it’s the reminder that we as the church need. And the sooner we realise that we’ve made these mistakes, the quicker we can get to resolving them, even if that’s just a step at a time. When we make our faith about point-scoring and numbers in the congregation rather than our journey with the living God, and coming together as the body of Christ, that’s when we’ve messed up. These lyrics are important to us because they show us some of our biggest failings, when we allow personalities and our leadership to define us more than our saviour, that’s when we’ve messed up. So, why do i think this song is so important for us as the modern church? Because this song is almost a mirror into the faces of our church. We should be a people who are willing to push through the heartbreak in order to see our Lord in those dark times, but we can’t always say that’s the case. This to me, seems like an honest cry to move past all the faults of this world, to clear through the lies and heartbreak, in order to truly try to find Jesus, even in the most difficult of times. In my opinion, there’s no better way to end this beautiful song. We go back to the hook before we come to the ending lyrics of this amazing song: and that this vision of filling stadiums with people singing the name of Jesus, without really knowing what it means to live for him, and without knowing the power that name has, is not only missing the point, but is actively imprisoning the believers in those sorts of environments to bring people to church rather than bring the gospel to those that want to know more about Jesus. This idea that, it’s about the amount of people who attend our church, rather than the amount of people that not only love God, but want to live for him. To me, this line really does seem like a dig at the mega church mentality. However, it’s the line “what’s a vision if driven to imprison?” that really interests me. I take the first two lines of this verse to talk about how we’ve become a people of trying to hurt each other (sticks and stones may break my bones ect) rather than come together as people of God and unite under the cross. What’s a vision if it’s driven to imprison? Moving onto the second verse (sung by Lindsay Gardner) ![]() Especially the “turn the tables we flipped” line, reminding us that in Jesus, all things are new, and even the situations we feel are broken beyond repair, are secured in his hands. ![]() I love the lyrics as they’re not only cleverly placed, but so powerful. ![]() We’ve moved from our struggles in the church, back to the focus of what and who our lives should revolve around, our salvation and the one who saved us, Jesus. This a perfect contrast to the first verse in my opinion. A call to leave behind this idea that we should focus more on our church leaders rather than the one that we’re supposed to come and worship, to the point where God comes second to those we may come to idolize that stand in the altar. This verse to me seems like a call from Chad’s perspective for the church to move away from this cult of personality that the modern church has been known to suffer from. Not to say that helping in our churches is a bad thing, not at all, but when we feel like that’s where our service to the Lord begins and ends, then there’s a problem. It really is questioning this idea if we do truly commit ourselves to God, or instead to the church we attend. ![]() The first half of this verse really hits me on a number of levels. This is why i love this band so much, they add a level of depth to every song they write that very few artists or bands could even dream to match. And “the beauty Between” has “sticks and stones” why do i think so highly of this song? Let’s look through the lyrics, and maybe you’ll understand why. “Beyond control” had “a prayer” a song i still consider a turning point for worship. It seems every time i listen to a Kk album, there’s a song that hits me on a level that no other song can, “becoming who we are” had “light after darkness” a song that inspired the name of this blog. So at the time of writing, “The beauty between” (the newest Kings kaleidoscope mixtape) is not even a day old, and though it is different to the previous instalments from my favourite Christian band, it’s still an amazing album in its own right, i’ll leave a link to the whole thing at the end of this post, but there’s one song that i want to focus on today, it’s a song that i have a lot of love for, and a song that i truly feel, is important to the church at large, and that song is “Sticks and Stones”
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