As a Pastor and Worship Leader, I get the privilege of hearing some of the worst music ever written. So for the benefit of you who don’t spend hours listening to new music I am going to begin a weekly post called Jesus or my girlfriend. Now your job will be, without googling the lyrics, to guess if this song is supposedly Christian or if it is secular.
This song was written by a guy from England
“I Love Your Love”
Chorus 1
I love Your love
Gonna shout it out aloud
I love Your love
Wanna tell the world about it
I love Your love
‘Cause I’ve found it to be true
And I live to love You too
Verse 1
Sometimes when I feel Your love
As I walk along the busy street
I whisper Your name under my breath
And sometimes when I feel Your touch
In the quiet place of my room
I sing Your name in adoration
And there are times
When I feel like I’m bursting with Your love
So strong and so true
And in my heart I feel such a yearning
And I want all the world
To know You love them too
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I say it’s supposedly a ‘Jesus’ song. My wife thinks it’s a secular song adapted to be sung in church.
The last two lines tell me it’s supposed to be a “Jesus” song, but why do I feel like I’ve been eavesdropping where I shouldn’t?
Unless he always capitalizes the pronouns that refer to his girlfriend, I will go with Jesus.
This is one of the worse songs lyrically I have ever read. It made me cringe.
Typical “Jesus is my boyfriend” lyrics.
It’s better to refer to this in a feminine way mainly because the saccharine-sweetness of the lyrics are romance-sounding. Besides, which Christian guy is going to sing “Jesus is my boyfriend”?
Please don’t tell me this is a “Jesus” song… I prefer to go on in denial.
That isn’t “Shout It Out Loud” by Oasis? I gotta go look that up now.
Okay, this song is so bad I have to make up words to describe it – love song or Christian.
It’s the most badliest, worstificated, ungoodliest set of lyrics. And it’s so lame that even as a ‘girlfriend’ song, it probably wouldn’t garner much attention.
I’m gonna go with ‘Jesus’ song.
To be fair,Paul Oakley has written some great contemporary worship songs. He is part of New Frontiers whose musicians include Stuart Townend – one of the absolute best of today’s writers (In Christ Alone, How Deep the Father’s Love, The Power of the Cross).
Alan I agree. In fact, when I ran across this song, I was looking at some of Paul’s other stuff almost in awe at how good it was. When I heard this I actually couldn’t believe it belonged to him. This is one of the worst songs lyrically, and musically I have ever heard.
Sounds like Rascal Flatts to me…
Concerning ridiculing songs by calling them “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs:
I’m an old fuddy-duddy and I also cringe at many of those that are cited. I much prefer other material, usually older.
However, check out the lyrics to Bach’s cantatas. The music certainly doesn’t sound like Britney Spears would sing them, but some [certainly not all] of the lyrics are incredibly personal.
And some of the old hymns had personal lyrics too.
Does the biblical presentation of Jesus as the bridegroom and the Father as Israel’s husband have any bearing on this discussion?
Apparently none of the commenters thus far have had the spiritual experience the songwriter is describing, so they choose to mock him.
I, and many thousands of others, have had such an experience with the Holy Spirit of God — and can testify that the writer isn’t even scratching the surface of describing what it’s like to have one’s spirit suddenly touched with the fiery love of Christ.
I pray you all will have this experience before you step over into the next life. Ask Him for this blessing! It will rock your world, and change your life!
In the meantime, read “The Father’s Heart” by Jack Frost.