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Would you sing this song in your church?

Jerome

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Yes, seems it's all the rage among the neocalvinist conference set:
HistoricProtestant blog:
This is a song that will forever be in my heart. We sang this song at the “Together For The Gospel” (T4G) conference this past April. Five thousand of us! Giving God glory. Please hit the link below and hear us sing this song. It is hard to make out some of the lyrics at times, so read the words that I have provided. Look real close and you can catch a photo of us sitting about five rows behind John Piper and Mark Dever praying.
 

Jon-Marc

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I have changed some words in a few songs because of them not being scriptural. The meaning or useage of some words have changed over the years. The word "gay" used to mean "happy and cheerful", but the meaning has completely changed. I would never use that word in reference to myself in this day and age.

Good point, which I neglected to point out in my earlier hasty post. Some hymnals change the word "awful" in the tune to "awesome". This is because the word "awful" used here is the Old English word, meaning "full of awe". Awful no longer means that. Several of Watts' lyrics are simialrly changed in some more recently published hymnals.

On "Cyber Hymnal", the hymn is listed as "How Sweet and Awesome Is This Place":
cyberhymnal.org/htm/h/s/hsweetaw.htm
 
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