The Born-Again Lobotomized

“The evangelical Church at large has opted for the superficial in worship. Devotees whoop and holler their way through trite upbeat songs; sometimes the songs are even blasphemous. At a conference, I once saw grown Christians jumping up and down, lustily singing away, with hand motions, splish-splashing in the blood of Christ. And when the moment turns serious, they cooed their way through worship songs that sounded like they were written for somebody’s girlfriend. Substitute Sheila for Jesus in a lot of these songs, and it would not make much of a difference. At other times some good biblical word like alleluia is sung over and over and over, as though it were a mantra for the born-again lobotomized” (Mother Kirk, p. 128).