Pop Christian Songs Aren't Always Theologically Precise, Or Even Close When It Comes To The Gospel

I was listening to a Christian radio station earlier today and heard something that got me thinking.

The song, to paraphrase, said that mercy doesn't care what you've done. Obviously, this was intended to say the normal synergistic, "Come as you are to Jesus."

While it is true that we are sinners, and we do not wait until we are perfectly holy to repent and believe, the phrase "mercy doesn't care what you've done," I believe, is not just imprecise, but thoroughly unbiblical.

Why?

First, Jesus, the Son of God, died to pay the penalty for what we've done. So, I'd say he would beg to differ. It does matter what we've done.

Second, we wouldn't need the "mercy" had we not done what we've done. The "mercy" exists, because God loved His people so much that He provided the mercy and payment for the sins they've committed. He gave them that which they did not deserve.

Third, I think the above phrase demonstrates that the writer doesn't understand the wickedness of sin. Ps. 5:5 and Ps. 11:5- Need I say more?

Fourth, God most definitely "cares," because we must REPENT in order to come. What are we repenting of, but that which we've done? What is it that we confess, but that which God has already said about our sin? We confess that we are sinners and rightly condemned for so being.

Finally, what will men be judged for, in the end, but the works done in the flesh?

Please, make no mistake, God does care what we have done and what we do. As Ps. 51 notes, it does matter what is on the inside, but what we do on the outside, comes from within.

You cannot truly come to God without REPENTING for your sins.

Repent, believe and flee the wrath to come.

How sad indeed...

I found this excerpt from the Huffington Post, one of the more anti-Christian, news outlets:

"For months, Liberty University refused to investigate Caner's background. Now that local press and even the Associated Press have written about the controversy, the school has set up a committee to investigate the allegations. If they excuse his behavior, they risk tarnishing their credibility. If they punish him, they risk provoking the anger of the evangelical community.
An unrepentant Caner maintains his innocence, saying that he "never intentionally misled anyone." He blames the campaign to discredit him on Calvinists and their Muslim interlocutors. At the same time, many of his duped followers are refusing to accept reality. They are taking their anger out on those who have exposed the fraud and not on the charlatan himself."

Please, excusers of Caner, not defenders, yes excusers, please see that it is not the men who had the courage to hold Caner accountable that have given the unbelievers the occasion to blaspheme. No, it is the unwillingness to deal with the issue properly and promptly that has caused this.

It is indeed sad to see this story on the Huffington Post. It is truly sad to see that it has taken unbelievers bringing light to the issue, when Christians had been attempting to set things right first.

Please, call on Ergun to end this. Please, call on Liberty to end this.

Again, may God help us all to repent quickly, when we are confronted with sin, and, indeed, may God help us to repent even more quickly when we sin.

I know sometimes, to us, it is not enough that God sees our sin, but it should be. God's eyes should be the only eyes we fear to have our sins exposed before.

May God help us and May God forgive us all for our sins.