Now what this city represents, is personal. But this woman is being tempted away from intimacy with a man who deeply loves her, for a “city” life. My understanding is this song is being sung in the woods, which to me represents an adventurous and romantic life of intimacy with God, not unlike the pure and childlike life of the Garden in Eden.
His band founded the Christian charity Blood:Water Mission, which combats AIDS/HIV and water shortages abroad.Wow, I appreciate the above reader's thoughts on this song's meaning! I've been very deep into this song this week, comparing it some to passages in the Song of Songs, (a study of which is a life-time pursuit of mine) So here's my 2 cents worth, or maybe more to someone who may be feeling like they lost their way (like I have been, in this season), and long to "get back home." This has meant taking a careful and often critical view of contemporary church behavior and culture.Īlthough Jars of Clay was never the most explicitly Christian of Christian bands ( Religion News Service noted that Haseltine has long described Jars of Clay as occupying a "middle space") Haseltine is open and active in his faith as a Christian. I have attempted to provide questions that could lead to a more love based approach. While celebrated for its music and writing, Jars of Clay is most concerned with the needs in.
In my career as an artist, musician, and storyteller, I have attempted to illuminate fear-based behavior in the church. Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band. Having grown up in the Christian church, I have observed and perpetrated many acts that originated out of fear. The common quote, “What is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” came to mind. If gay men and women were being oppressed, not having an opinion in the matter seemed equal to the acceptance of systemic racism by way of silence. Remember Jars of Clay One of a handful of 'cool' 90s kind-of Christian bands The groups lead singer Dan Haseltine has caused a mini firestorm among his evangelical base of supporters this. Biography Mason was born in Joliet, Illinois 3 in 1975, however was brought up from age 8 in Decatur, Illinois where he attended Warrensburg-Latham schools. All the while, Haseltine tweeted about same-sex marriage for days, dropping in and out of an active conversation with his followers with new thoughts on why there's basically no good argument against allowing same-sex couples to marry: Stephen Daniel Mason (born July 8, 1975) 2 is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. Some Christian radio stations (reportedly) pulled his music from rotation in response to this thoughts on Twitter, and some (former) fans deleted Jars of Clay from their playlists. The Christian Post's Crossmap blog chided Haseltine with this response: "Scripture also addresses homosexual behavior in both the Old and New Testaments, warning that immoral sexual activity will lead to death and eternal damnation." Perhaps this is the root of your problem? Is the Bible not clear about anything? Sin? Salvation? Forgiveness? Jesus being the only Savior and Lord? Adultery being bad? Fidelity being good? Shall I list 100 more items that are abundantly clear in Scripture? Because most people read and interpret scripture wrong.”
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Here's the beginning of his days-long series of tweets on the subject, which were prompted in part because of a film he viewed on a plane trip - 12 Years a Slave :ĭan, you wrote, “Never liked the phrase: ‘Scripture clearly says.(blank) about. If nothing else, the episode is a telling example of just how tough it is even in 2014 for many evangelical Christians to move away from a traditional stance on the issue. And while the singer has since apologized for his "poor choice of words" on the role of scripture in his thinking, he has yet to walk back his questions on same-sex marriage itself.
Like World Vision, Haseltine quickly had to reckon with a pretty strong backlash in the wake of his public engagement with the subject. His move comes just weeks after World Vision, a major Christian charity, had to walk back its brief decision to not discriminate against perspective employees who were LGBT. Remember Jars of Clay? One of a handful of "cool" 90's kind-of Christian bands? The group's lead singer Dan Haseltine has caused a mini firestorm among his evangelical base of supporters this week by issuing a series of tweets in support of same-sex marriage.
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