The hymn itself does not mention gender, which at the beginning I thought is where you were going with this…why allow so many church members’ first impression of it to be framed by gender-based church division? (Isn’t that what we are striving against?) Especially when there is more evidence that the intention of the composers was to be unifying? (IE: intentionally not gendering the original hymn writer & setting the lyrics to music that would be vocally accessible to as many people as possible)
“basically, the odds were ever in my favor for getting a date” made me almost spit out my water. But also, this post is so 🔥🔥
Somebody caught the reference, yay! 😆
The hymn itself does not mention gender, which at the beginning I thought is where you were going with this…why allow so many church members’ first impression of it to be framed by gender-based church division? (Isn’t that what we are striving against?) Especially when there is more evidence that the intention of the composers was to be unifying? (IE: intentionally not gendering the original hymn writer & setting the lyrics to music that would be vocally accessible to as many people as possible)