The Watershed

For most of my songwriting years, I had been diligently writing love songs to God, songs about my personal walk with and before Him. Arriving in the UK, I felt I would need to adapt my style so I could get into the pubs - to get a foot in the door, so to say, and from there to sing more openly about God. What I found was that my songs became more and more washed out, and in the end I had stopped writing about God and really was not going to make any impact. Without even trying, I found myself writing love songs to God again. I had come full circle. I do accept that sometimes we need to be sensitive in our approach, but there was one principle I learnt: in the end, the "God" issue will still cause offense to those who won't accept Him. Jesus confirmed this in John 7:7, "The world...hates me because I testify that what it does is evil." You can take whatever approach you choose in presenting your Christian songs, but the God-factor is still going to be incisive and sometimes divisive. At some stage, you'll have to get to the point.