WORSHIP WARS?!? - Season 2 Episode 3

What Worship Is and Why Music Becomes a Church Controversy

Guys, welcome back to the podcast, the Point Taken Christian podcast, the podcast where we make, where we take spiritual questions and chat it up. Guys, my name is Hunter. Love being in this podcast, having a great time.

To my right, this of course is brother Andrew, built by God, Cook. Welcome shoulder, everybody. I appreciate you joining us again for the Point Taken podcast. And to his behind, and there's no sugar in it.

Obviously we have the lovely, the much loved, the famous, world famous Finnegan, pants-less Finnegan, pants-less Finnegan. We will not be putting pants in the budget anytime soon. And to my left, guys, you know him, you love him.

You want some more of him. This is Pastor Josiah Shipley. Hello everybody. Are you happy to be here? I'm happy to be here, Andrew. Guys, we're all happy to be here. Today's going to be a really cool episode.

Another wolf shirt.

That's actually a returning wolf shirt. That's right. Because it says wolves, even though there's only one. Yeah. All right.

Go ahead. I dare not wear the mask one again. Please do. Wear the mask one again, dude. That was so sad. Finnegan, you need to wear the mask one next time. We would never do that to Finnegan, I'm sorry.

Finnegan didn't have a face, so he couldn't see what he's wearing. Don't say that. That bothers him. I'm sorry. You said that. Honestly, I'm coming to his defense. I'm coming to his defense, because had he had a face and seen that shirt, he would not have been happy.

Does he like cry from here? And it falls out of his fingers? No. Well, we're talking about worship today. Today is all about worship. What's good? What isn't good? Guys, worship is a hot topic. Worship wars.

Worship wars. Churches worship will drive people to and from churches like, you know, a sale on chicken. Churches chicken. I quit. I'm done. Dude, nuts. Well done, man. Right? I was just like, that didn't click.

I had to explain the joke real quick. Yeah. Yeah, that's all right. Yeah, so drives a bunch of different questions when it comes to worshiping and singing songs. Churches chicken. All right. I'm ready.

Let's go. I mean, we've had people leave this church because of worship. We've had... Well, I don't think we've really attracted anybody. No. They thought they left because of worship. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean... I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Y 'all's music minister doesn't seem like he knows what he's talking about. Yeah. He looks like he has bad taste in wolf shirts sometimes.

It's a good thing it's not me. Yeah, man. It's a point of contention because a lot of people judge a church based on music. You know what I'm saying? And that's not really the measure of a church, but really the music, that's not really the point of it.

The point of worship music isn't to measure the validity of a church or... To go to a rock concert. Right. Or even to go to an old fashioned... Yeah. Do you know how hard that is to sing? Like really good.

It's really hard. I'm just used to Monty Python. Yeah. That's all I... I make up most of the syllables that I sing when I do it too. Man, you're... I hope our camera can pick up. I did smack my forehead.

That is a shiner if I've ever seen one. That's commitment. That's commitment. Nick, can you... I wanted it to pick up here. Like where's our roaming camera? We need to get that. Oh, he's in there.

That roaming camera over there. Why is it roaming if he's sitting in a chair? He's lazy.

He's bad at his job. He said this is going to be like the trial run. The trial run? Wait a minute. Are you... There he is now.

He's getting all... Oh my goodness gracious. He's getting all the angles now. He's going to walk back and forth for the next hour and 20 minutes? 100%.

Well, I don't know about a whole hour and 20 minutes, but... Let's keep going back and forth. He has to... So I guess first things first, guys, and this one's going to be quick, but I just wanted to ask our resident worship leader, minister man, what is worship?

What's the point of worship? Worship is an outpouring of praise and adoration to the Lord, to Yahweh specifically, not to any other type of God. I've heard the statement, and I do actually love this idea, you are what you worship.

So worship is a sacrifice. One of the Psalms says we bring the sacrifice of praise, or bring the sacrifice of praise. Of course, and it's a song, yeah. So when you are worshiping, it is a separation of everything around you to an outpour of praise and adoration to the Father.

You can do that through singing. You can do that through prayer. You can do that through studying. So what's the issue that people have, if that's all it is with the specific songs that we use? Well, music is subjective.

There's not a lot of objectivity with music. It's funny. I was on the way here, I was listening to a comment, a reaction from the guy who wrote the song to, of a reactor reacting to the song. I lost track about, on reactor.

So the guy who wrote the song was watching a reaction to someone listening to a song. Okay. Okay. So it's like, if I was watching, if I was... That is what YouTube is, by the way.

He's taking more of his time to write more songs.

He's reacting to reactions to reactions. That's every YouTube channel I know, anyway. Yeah, everybody's reacting to reactions. But one thing that the comment, the guy who was reacting to the song... Yeah, the guy who wrote it.

No. The guy who was watching the song. Yeah. Watching the music video. Being watched by the guy who wrote it. So what he was saying... I know. What he was saying was, is he was putting emphasis on his view of what the song was, while the guy who wrote the song was saying, well, I didn't actually write it for anything like that.

I just wrote it because I thought it was cool. So music is very subjective to the person. You pour whatever you're going through into it. Now where we fall into a problem with that is when you take what is supposed to be a song of praise and adoration, is supposed to be a song that lifts up or sings about attributes of the Father, sings about the life-changing and life-fulfilling promise of the Holy Spirit, the death and resurrection of the Son.

When you take that and you change the meaning of it to everything is about what he did for me and how good it is for me that this happened, versus saying, thank you for the wondrous works that you've done, that you've put out.

So when it becomes me-centered, while you can still be saying, Jesus saved me, Jesus saved me, me, me, me, me, me, me is the, it's almost that Jesus takes a backseat to the idea of me. Well, Jesus saved me from my sin, which is good.

That's great. That's what we want. But then you start saying, and look what all I've done with this, that, and the other. Well, where'd Jesus go? I'm not talking about Jesus anymore. You're talking about what Jesus did.

Okay, cool. But now they're doing it, but now I'm doing all of it. Where's the, where's the, where is it at? So and of course you have within that, so personal preference comes into the idea of music is subjective.

So I'm not a big proponent of rap music. I know a lot of my friends are. That's cool. I don't like it. They do. I don't necessarily think that it is the best type of worship music. I would not be able to sing along.

I believe in congregational singing, and if a rapper were to go up on stage and rap, even if he was rapping a book of the Bible, it'd be kind of neat to be honest, but I wouldn't be able to sing along or anything because I can't congregation, we can't all worship together.

It is a performance versus a non, a non-performer. I'm watching you. I'm listening to you. Congregational singing. So that's your only issue when it comes to like hip hop or rap, is it, it's harder to...

In the context of worship music. In the context of worship. Yeah. I have other problems with that, but... So if like Lecrae came and sang... Well, Lecrae... Well I mean, okay, 2008 Lecrae. It's not my personal taste.

I would not be able to enjoy it or do it, like to, to enjoy that type of a concert because it's just not, I don't like that kind of music. So there's my subjectivity. See, I'm not immune to it either.

As a worship leader, I am that, hear me when I say these words, I am not immune to this. But is it acceptable? Is it acceptable in a worship setting? I don't believe so, no. Ah, okay. So go, because I was wondering, is it, if it's just subjective or if it's also the objective, like...

Oh, is there an objectivity to it? You can't worship to it. Some people can. I can't. I don't see how you can, unless you like memorize the words. I don't, I can't. I mean, that's the same thing with most songs.

You either read it off or memorize it, right? Not necessarily. What do you mean? It depends on how it's written. Music can be written to where it is very easily picked up. Okay. So, for instance, children's hymns, stuff that we all, Jesus loves me, this, I know you can pick up on that.

Once you, once you kind of start to hear, even the most unmusically, unmusical person can pick up on certain types of tunes. Amazing Grace is one. It's not children's, but you can pick it up, amazing grace, how sweet, you've either heard it through repetition or you, the tune, I'm not talking about the words, the tune you've heard through repetition, you can hum it, that kind of stuff.

But at the same time, it's easier to pick up. Like it's, as an easy tune to pick up, you can, you can hum, it's an earworm, if y 'all haven't heard that tune. It's an earworm. Versus, someone's talking really fast like this, and then like putting a whole bunch of different words, and then a little inflection, cool rhythms, where it's like, all of this is going too, you know, that kind of thing.

That's hard. That's complex rhythm. So I'm looking at the music theory side of it. It's very hard, it's very complex. It's very much like rhythmically driven, speaking specifically of rap now. Very rhythmically driven.

It's very much like a snare drum. A snare drum has no pitch. It does have a pitch, but it's very obscure. So this, say that back to me right now. Ba-da-da-ba-ba-ba. Okay, he's musically trained. Say it back to me.

Do it again. No. That was a boy.

Well, I mean, I can say what he just said. Ba-da-da-ba-ba-ba. Okay, now do this. That was pretty good. That wasn't a real rhythm. There's no way.

He went, so I'll beat right there, he said. There's no way. No, that wasn't time. Maybe we can play it back to me. Yeah, we'll play it back. I'm pretty sure I just got like 80 right there. So that's what I'm saying in the context of rap music.

Now, if you have something like this, where you're going and you're, when someone's singing, my favorite is, because we had this happen the other day at a school, when someone gets up there and sings a familiar tune.

So if I were to sing, amazing grace, yeah, how sweet the sound. I can't follow that. There's too much.

That's 100 true. That's too much wiggling. Like, I can't do that. We'll do that with the national anthem sometimes. They sure do.

Yeah, good point. And you're like, when they're singing it, and you go to the next part, but they're still on the same verse, the same word, because they're just stretching it out to do vocal roles. And you're just like, hey, bro, first of all, if I'd have known about that vocal role, maybe.

Maybe. Maybe. But I didn't know. And you knew that I didn't know. And you're still doing it. And see, that's not to change subjects, but the national anthem is a good example, I think, of a... So the national anthem is to do what?

It is supposed to inspire and to get us all rallied around the same cause as Americans. However, one of the things that has become popular is exactly that. It is now a vocal performance. Now it was written, back when it was written, it was written to be challenging, because not everyone should sing the national anthem.

That was the intention behind it. Not everyone should be able to sing this. So it was only... I didn't know that. That's cool. Yeah. It's pretty interesting history, how it came about. And there's like six other verses.

But what it comes... Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. What it comes to is, he wrote it specifically to make it challenging. So when you hear someone sing it badly, it's hard. I mean, that's just what it is.

But we've taken it from, okay, this is something we should all strive to learn how to sing. We're Americans, we should learn how to sing this song. To, okay, every big sporting event, we have the national anthem to sing.

Okay, you can listen to it. If not, everybody stands up, everybody observes a moment of silence, if you will. And they may sing it, they may not. It's really hard to follow that person if they're doing all the vocal roles, if they're doing all the arpeggios and stuff inside of the music.

You tend to notice everybody stops singing and just starts to listen at that point. Right. Because what the heck are you supposed to do? If that's what you're wanting to do with the national anthem, that's great.

Make it a performance. But if you want to turn into what it actually was intended to be, which is a rally call for all Americans, then we should all be able to sing it. And I think that logic can be applied.

If anything, the logic for that should be pulled over from the Christian side of saying worship music, hymns, songs, hymns, spiritual songs, whatever it may be, should have the same exact focus. We all come together, we center on the same idea, and we sing together as we unify.

That was a very well-structured argument, because I was not with you until that point. Now I understand a lot more what you're saying. So you're saying that there's a certain necessity of ease of, I don't know, mass availability or congregational joining in.

Like it has to be easy, or at least to a certain degree, like everybody to both learn it and to sing it. Yeah. And that's why modern, I do believe why modern Christian, so CCM music only sticks to, and you hear this joke all the time, well, all you got to do is learn four chords and you learn every song in the CCM handbook.

Yeah, it's true. Because those four chords, whatever they may be, whether it be C, F, G, and D, E minor, for those who do music, if it's just those four chords, you can make a song out of that. Easy peasy.

Everyone's going to recognize, oh, okay, I know where the next, it's very predictable where the next chord's going to go, because everything has a progression. Chords have progressions, they want to go certain directions.

Right. And you pick a melody that fits on those, but you don't make it very elaborate. You make it maybe three to five notes. Yeah. That's very easy to pick up, especially if all you're doing is a verse, a chorus, and if you're having a good day, a bridge, to connect, quote unquote, this is what they, this is, I love doing this part.

So a verse, you know, sing a verse about something that's leading to the chorus. It all leads to the chorus. The chorus is the hook. Yeah. Then they need it to go longer, so they're like, well, this was another idea I had from another song.

Why don't we stick that in there to actually flush it out? That's a new chorus. We're not going to call it a new chorus. It's going to be a bridge that connects the chorus to the chorus again. Right. So it's like, man, you say it another way of saying the same thing.

So yeah. That's why it should be easy. Personally, I love bridges, so Andrew and I have very, we have very different opinions on these things. But I always respect your, what you're saying, though, because, but my thing, my question is, I think there's a difference when it comes to worship music and its viability.

You have worship music on a Sunday morning, like put yourself in the shoes of the worship minister, worship leader, music minister, whatever you say. Put on Andrew's shoes. And you'd say, is this song okay to pick?

Versus, there it is. Versus singing along in the car on the radio, like, am I actually, like, is this cool to worship to? Like, what is, like, is this an actual good worship song? So are you saying that all the songs need to be easily learned, easily singable and all that stuff for both of those circumstances or just for when you're picking songs for Sunday morning?

Well, I'm going to say that that is a huge indicator, at least for corporate worship. Individual worship is a matter of the heart. So if I'm driving in the car and a song comes on, oh man, I love this song, and I sing along to it, I have to be careful because if it's a song that is specifically written to be a worship song, I need to be able to say, am I singing this for the mere enjoyment that I like singing this song?

Or am I singing this because I want to worship? I want to put myself in the mindset of worshiping. So to answer your original question, which if you'll please restate it, the one you just said, say that again.

The one I just said. So the ease of learning it and the ease of singing it, is that necessary just for picking Sunday morning songs, or is it necessary for both worshiping to songs in private and for picking them as a music minister?

I'm going to say that it's definitely, the pendulum swings heavier towards picking for corporate worship. For individual worship, I think it's more on the individual than it is for me. Like I can't obviously, I'm not going to pop in your car while you're driving to work and say, hey, this isn't a worship song.

That's not him. And then jump out of the car in the middle of traffic. I'm not going to do that. Some people may think I do that. I can definitely see that stopping at a red light like on Highway 64 and just seeing him running up to the car.

He's like, what is this garbage? I'd be in much better shape. Maybe I should just do that. But no. So as a music minister, yes. Ease of singing is definitely something I think of and definitely want to put into play.

But individually, I mean, I have to examine myself where I am at that moment. How do I interpret, how do I take this song and do I apply it to worshiping or do I apply it to, I just want to sing it because it's fun.

And I think that self-examination is necessary both for when you're in your car or by yourself or whatever and or in corporate, I can't speak. Corporate worship. Church's chicken. Church's chicken. Yeah, you have to have that self-evaluation just like, what am I doing this for?

Like, am I doing this because it's fun? Am I doing this because, you know, this is what everybody else is doing? Am I doing this because I enjoy the music? Because if it becomes because I enjoy the music, the second you don't enjoy the music, you're no longer going to do anything and you're just going to complain and cry.

And quite honestly, there's times for everybody where a song is going to play and it's like, that's not my cup of tea. But if you can't worship God during that song, then you have switched your perspective from I'm doing this to worship God to I'm doing this to relate to the music.

And that's cool. Relating to the music is not an issue. Relating to the music is awesome. Relating to music is what, I mean, God made music. Music is a language. Music is like to provoke a reaction. That's the entire point.

And when we sing it to God, it is to provoke a reaction. Just not from us. Not to mention God sings. Right. He does it in his own self. So that's what I'm saying is that, man, when you enjoy music for you, that's awesome.

And you can feel that emotion and you can be led to do these things and you can pour whatever you're dealing with into those songs, worship or not, however. But when you worship, that's part of the sacrifice is worship is anything you do in obedience to God.

And that's what I tell the youth when I ask them, what's worship? I'll say anything you do in obedience to God. Praise is when you do it with music. Right. Well, if worship is anything I do in obedience to God, then being obedient to God is to sacrifice my own self.

Right. He said to take up your cross and follow me daily. And if loving is sacrifice, I'm trying to show God love. Then instead of letting my own self be affected by this music, I am trying to drive that affection towards him.

And I'm trying to do that for him. So when I say, well, this song kind of sucks, that might be true subjectively, or even objectively if it's just a terrible song, but it's not really about how you feel about it in that moment.

Right. It's about because your priority has to be, I am trying to do this to please God. Right. And in that, as a music minister, we'd want to pick something that is good and that we want because that we think it's good and we think sounds good.

And the lyrics are in line with what is true and what is upbringing. But at the end of the day, you can't let a bad melody stop you from praising God. To kind of jump on the point you made about emotionally getting into, I wanted to swing over to Pastor Sia.

I'm ready. SOG. You want to do a plug about SOG real quick before we, before I ask you your question?

Ask the question, then I'll do the plug and answer the question at the same time.

So in SOG, you fight for the mic. That is, that's the whole purpose of the fight, is you get the microphone and you get to spread the gospel to people that may or may not have ever heard it or want to hear it.

When you're gearing up, when you're walking out to, for your fight, do they have music playing? Yes. Typically it's music that the person who's walking out has picked. So that gets them emotionally prepared to fight.

So I guess my question is, is can a Christian song, a Christian worship song, do that for a person if they let it? Yes. In what context? For ready for a fight or ready for... There's, that's what I'm, yeah, that's what I'm going for.

I'm just going off the emotion aspect of things.

Yeah, I would say, there's a lot I could say there. First off, yes, SOG, Soldiers of God MMA is the MMA ministry we do at this church where we train young men and women, make smart sharks, train them to, well, some of them are the re just to get in shape, some are there for the camaraderie, some are there for self-discipline, some are there to train to fight.

And we've got a fight for, I can't remember if it's June or July, but we have a fight coming up where one of our young guys is going to have his first fight. And I used to do that for a while. I would say that, and if I could jump on what you were saying earlier, what Hunter just said is worship, it's not just singing.

Worship is that what you do in obedience to God. With that being said, emotions have zero to do with that. They can be a by-product, like they can be a by-product of obedience, okay? But not the cause or resource of it.

So anyone who's hoping for that emotional feeling that doesn't come while you're worshiping, worship is obedience even if you don't feel like it. In fact, I would say that's probably a bigger sign that you're obeying, is if you don't feel like it and do it anyway.

As far as when you said, can a Christian song, I would push back and ask, what do we mean by a Christian song? I have a definition of that. Does that mean a Christian wrote a song? Does that mean the lyrics are in line with Christian doctrine?

For example, there are a lot of songs that play on the radio that I love. Doesn't mean I love every line in that song, but I'm not going to let the one line, unless it is heretical, deter me from listening to that song.

I can think of an example right now. I bet it's going to be in this list already. Well, you know what? Then I'm not going to do that because I'll let you do that. But, you know, Paul said, some preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.

But what does it matter? Just that in every way, if Christ is being proclaimed, then I'll rejoice. So long as the actual Christ is being proclaimed, and there's probably the kicker right there. So long as the actual Christ is being proclaimed.

When it comes to walkout songs, I did a lot of songs, and yeah, it's more for emotionally getting you ready for a fight. That's more of the purpose of it. That should not be the same tool Andrew or any worship leader uses for choosing corporate worship on Sunday mornings and what gets people emotionally charged to make a decision.

That's a load of crap. That should not be the... That's two separate things. If you're viewing those the same things, let's just tell you something about you as a music minister. Thank God we have music leaders and Brother Andrew here, but do not do that because it is not about the emotional charge up to make a decision for God.

That's what a walkout song is for. That's not what worship is for. So can a song get you emotionally charged up for that? Sure. But if that's the case, if that's the case, then using it for a different purpose than what we should be using Sunday mornings for.

Yeah.

And I'll say back when I first started, that was my gauge was how was the feeling in the room when we were done. As I have grown and as I have learned more, I'm just going to use... I've learned more than I used to back when I first started.

The worship time, which we have assigned on a Sunday morning. Yeah.

And Matt, even that phraseology, like I like here that we call it praise and worship because the entire service should be worship. If worship is obeying God, the entire service, including the offering, including the fellowship, that's a command of God, including the invitational.

Including the study of his word during the sermon.

If you can't worship learning his word, then you're not learning his word. That's why Andrew calls it praise and worship because we're specifically talking about with the mouth praise, right? Like you said earlier.

I didn't mean to... No, you're fine. But that's what something I appreciate about Andrew is he doesn't try to rile it up with emotions. And just because motivational speakers do the same thing, and some of them call themselves pastors and preachers, listen, the greatest sermon ever preached, the sermon on the mountain was preached by the greatest preacher to ever exist, Jesus Christ.

At the end of that sermon, zero people got saved. Greatest preacher, greatest sermon, zero conversions. Not because it says people were astonished. That's all it says. Not because it was not a good sermon, but because a good sermon is not determined by the outcome of...

Peter gets up a few years later and says, you're all a bunch of godless scum, you crucified the source of life, repent now or be damned. And then Pentecost, 3 ,000 people get saved, right? I mean, because it's a working of the spirit, not of emotions.

Right.

So back to relegate. So most, at least in America, we have relegated our services to two and a half hours on a Sunday morning. And then if you're lucky, you have a Sunday night service. And we've relegated it to that.

So what my new goal as the minister here is, is I want you as a congregation member, as a family member, to walk away with a song that may help you remember scripture. That's why... You pair it with scripture.

Pair it with scripture.

We always pair it with scripture. Like we read Romans or Isaiah before we, yeah.

And then the last song, I will intersperse with Thanksgiving in my heart. I will intersperse with praise. That's scripture. That's the psalm. And if you can walk out saying, he has made me glad, just remember that throughout the week when you're having the roughest week and you go, ah, I will intersperse with thanksgiving.

I need to do better about saying where it is. I think it's Psalm 95, I'm probably wrong. But that's my new goal, is scripture should always be the cornerstone of how you worship, what songs you worship with.

Like this morning, we read Ephesians 1, it says that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened. And then we sing, open the eyes of my heart, Lord. I love that.

When a Song Is Worship, and When It Is Just Performance

All right. Well, let's go on to this question. Let's get some specific examples, bro. Oh, yeah. So the question was, how do we decide when worship music is okay to sing to? And for this, I've prepared...

Don't you love. We're already classifying it as worship music. It could be that or it could...

It could be anything. I have prepared a little game for the guys. Let's go, man. What we're going to do is... Come on, man. Let's go. I hope we don't agree.

Death will come swiftly. I'm excited. I certainly hope that we don't agree. We're not going to. Because I want some... And your point will not be taken because yours is going to suck. All right, let's go.

Whatever it is.

I have lyrics printed here on these papers. I'm going to read some of them. Some of them, I have the whole song. Some of them, I have just the controversial parts. Is he about to read the whole song? No.

No. It's just poetry. Yeah, it's just poetry at that point. It's like Edgar Allan Poe. This first song... And should we say this? Let me preface it with this. Because the first question you kind of answered, but we didn't really say is, should we listen to worship by non-Christians?

That's the first little thing that I had down here. And when you said the Bible verse, it was the answer to the question that I had. My B, bro. Yeah. No, no. You were doing well. Is that Paul said, it doesn't really matter how it's getting out there, just that it's getting out there.

I do love how Paul was getting chided by the gospel. Like people were preaching a gospel that was contrary to the actual gospel, and they're doing it in spite of, like to spite him. Yeah. Well, there's two different.

It's the gospel. There's when they preach the real gospel, but they have a hard heart. They have a hard heart. But they're preaching the real gospel. He goes, you know what? They're preaching the real gospel.

Cool. Hey, thanks, bro. But then when they preach the wrong gospel, he says in Galatians 1, and do not pardon my language because it's in the Bible, he says, let them be damned. So there's the line is what's coming out of their mouth.

The real gospel or a fake one.

I'm sorry. I just, I have this middle image of some guy going, Jesus loves you. I just, I can't get that out of my head. So great in his teeth, just angry, like Jesus loves you so much, he died for you.

You suck.

He was resurrected on the third day. He has ascended and he's Lord. Now what are you going to do about it? I'm going to sit here and be upset about it. I like that idea. I don't feel like that's a very common thing to happen.

Well, you said chided and I was like, oh, well that means they're doing it in spite of him. But with all that in mind, you know, my initial reaction when a obvious non-Christian sings a Christian song has stopped, has stopped being, oh, what the heck?

And just not listening. It has now been, well, instead of looking at the person singing it, let's see what they're singing. Right? So, Nicki Minaj, our first example. She is part of a worship song with Tasha Cobbs and Nicki Minaj features on it.

It's called I'm Getting Ready. And this time I am going to read the whole feature. Just Nicki Minaj's part. And what are we supposed, are we supposed to respond? Yeah. Once I'm done reading it. When are we responding?

We're responding. Here are the parameters. Is this a worship song that you would sing on a Sunday? Is it a worship song that you would sing by yourself? Is it a worship song at all? Okay. Okay. And wait until you're done to say anything.

And I want an answer for all three. Got it. Okay. I'm ready. Of course, if it's an answer to no to three, it'll be an answer to no to one and two also. It's possible. No, no. No. Oh, wait. To three. Yeah.

Yeah. I think we need to switch it. Is it a worship song at all? And then the other two. And then the other two. Okay. Up top. Five fingers. I'll put in a sound effect there. All right. Please do. So, sorry.

I'm going to try and get through this. Yo. Ayo. Oh, no. All right. That doesn't disqualify it yet. I know. That was Psalm 151. I know. Especially after. That's a Spanish word. Psalm 151. Like, I. By the way, for you that don't know, there's no Psalm 151.

All right. Go.

All right. Beach house vibes, maneuver the jet ski. This is a worship song. Hold on. Whoa. Beach house vibes, maneuver the jet ski. Cuz, cuz, I serve the God that parted the Red Sea. Bars. Bars. Multimillion dollars commercials for Pepsi.

From food stamps to more ice than Gretzky. Okay. All right. Hold on. We're not even halfway done. Oh, no. I'm just. We're dropping them. I'm putting it in my. I'm trying to visualize the words. Listen, Andrew.

I don't got to talk. The Lord defends me. I watch them all fall for going against me. Cuz me and all my angels shot the devil up. Which, honestly, that's a huge dub for humanity. It's like, thank you, first of all, to you and all your homies.