This is a satire piece that I wrote to express my feelings toward many of the songs we sing in church today: they are long, but short on lyrical content. Similar to what I remember about disco. During the 1970s, many people were saved out of disco to become Christian believers. Few would have thought that people could ever be saved into disco. Times have changed, though, and no Christian worship industry executive, pastor or theologian could have predicted the meteoric rise of a new type of worship music churches are currently using throughout the U.S.: Disco Worship. Disco Worship Fast Approaching Pop Worship in Popularity According to spokesperson Sergio Vandermaas of CRLI (Christian Royalties and Licensing Incorporated), the company that tracks worship song popularity and pays royalties to artists, CRLI has added several Disco Worship songs to their top song playlist and may even add a new Disco Worship category to their other category—Pop Worship—for tracking song usage. “Over t...
by Chris Rainey. This is a blog of my journaling, essays, opinion pieces, religious satire, and creative writing.