"And to me, ultimately, what is the goal of worship music? It's to exalt God." "You know, for some people, singing a simple, seven-word, simple chorus, draws them into the presence of God," he says. He now says you shouldn't complicate the message.
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But Cash has had a conversion to the praise chorus.
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"I remember thinking, you know, that's exactly the simple kind of brainless praise-chorus things that drive me crazy," Cash says. Nashville producer Ed Cash collaborated on the song and says he laughed out loud the first time he heard a rough draft. Chris Tomlin's "How Great Is Our God" is a refrain sung in megachurches worldwide. While modern hymns are finding an audience, those songs that may not say a whole lot still remain the most popular. "We would say, you know what, this is pretty, and this is nice, but it doesn't really say much," Harland says. He's been pushing LifeWay's own staff of songwriters to go deeper. Harland says the Gettys have set a new bar. That's more than just about any other living songwriter. Mike Harland, who is with LifeWay Christian Resources, which publishes the Southern Baptist hymnal, flips through the index, counting how many Getty hymns made the latest edition - there are 12 in total. This old-school approach has made the Gettys stars with the country's largest Protestant denomination: Southern Baptists. "There is an unhelpful, casual sense that comes with some of the more contemporary music," she says. Kristyn Getty says that some of the most popular music doesn't show God the proper reverence. " is so focused on several commercial aspects of God, like the fact that he loves our praises."
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"I think it's to the church's poverty that the average worship song now has so few words, so little truth," he says. But Keith Getty says it should be singable without a band and easy for anyone sitting in the pews to pick up. There's no definition for what's a hymn and not a praise song.