Song Review Index | The Berean Test

Song Review Index | The Berean Test

Vince Wright analyzes popular songs used in Christian worship to see whether they reflect the teaching of Scripture and properly focus attention on God and His glory. Some of his guiding principles are idiosyncratic -- he rates doctrinally sound hymns like "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" as "PERHAPS" for use in corporate worship because their poetic language might be off-putting to visitors -- but he invites respectful debate about the conclusions he reaches. In his review of "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord, O My Soul)," Wright overlooks the most annoying thing about the song, which you can find discussed here by Christopher Malapati: The constant shifting of referents for 2nd and 3rd persons, sometimes within a single line. (Is "your" referring to God or my soul?) Malapati proposes a fix, which is close to what I sing.