Comments on: The Cross and the Jukebox: Me and Jesus http://www.russellmoore.com/2011/01/28/the-cross-and-the-jukebox-me-and-jesus/ By Russell D. Moore. Russell D. Moore serves as the teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. In addition, Dr. Moore is the Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Find sermons and other resources to help Christians engage the culture from a biblical worldview at www.russellmoore.com. Tue, 22 May 2012 19:25:45 +0000 By: Renee Teate http://www.russellmoore.com/2011/01/28/the-cross-and-the-jukebox-me-and-jesus/#comment-70397 Renee Teate Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:04:48 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=6121#comment-70397 I just had to drop a note and say how much I am enjoying these podcasts. I love listening to your perspective on those old country songs I grew up listening to in rural South Alabama. I keep thinking about those early mornings when I had to get up to catch the school bus and Momma would have Gene Reagen and the farm report on the radio and Gene would play those good old country songs from Hank and Johnny and Tammy and Loretta...kinda makes me homesick :) Thank you for your theological insight into the human condition and how these songs reflect our soul sickness so well and the gospel truly is the only answer. Keep 'em coming, please! I just had to drop a note and say how much I am enjoying these podcasts. I love listening to your perspective on those old country songs I grew up listening to in rural South Alabama. I keep thinking about those early mornings when I had to get up to catch the school bus and Momma would have Gene Reagen and the farm report on the radio and Gene would play those good old country songs from Hank and Johnny and Tammy and Loretta…kinda makes me homesick :)

Thank you for your theological insight into the human condition and how these songs reflect our soul sickness so well and the gospel truly is the only answer.

Keep ‘em coming, please!

]]> By: Ken Blackwood http://www.russellmoore.com/2011/01/28/the-cross-and-the-jukebox-me-and-jesus/#comment-69108 Ken Blackwood Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:43:57 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=6121#comment-69108 Dr. Moore, I love your explanation of the implications of this song. I too have complained about this song for years since I first heard it. I had more recently forgotten about the song completely and really never even "heard" any part of it except the phrase, "We got our own thing goin' on." For all the reasons you mentioned, this is an offense to my theology and ecclesiology. However, if your suspicions about the song's true implications are correct, the song becomes a celebration of simple faith between a man and his Savior, a man and his Lord, a man and his Friend. In reality, this is a relationship between a "failure" and his Redeemer, not between the button-downed, manicured "success" and his Partner, as many of us in the church seem to now assume. Your comments here have helped me realize that the song being sung in many if not most churches today is not, "Me and Jesus," because that would be offensive to our sensibilities and ecclesiology. But, in it's place, the churches we attend seem to have no problem singing, "WE and Jesus, WE got our own thing goin'. WE don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about." Same thing, different verse. Dr. Moore, I love your explanation of the implications of this song. I too have complained about this song for years since I first heard it. I had more recently forgotten about the song completely and really never even “heard” any part of it except the phrase, “We got our own thing goin’ on.” For all the reasons you mentioned, this is an offense to my theology and ecclesiology.

However, if your suspicions about the song’s true implications are correct, the song becomes a celebration of simple faith between a man and his Savior, a man and his Lord, a man and his Friend. In reality, this is a relationship between a “failure” and his Redeemer, not between the button-downed, manicured “success” and his Partner, as many of us in the church seem to now assume.

Your comments here have helped me realize that the song being sung in many if not most churches today is not, “Me and Jesus,” because that would be offensive to our sensibilities and ecclesiology. But, in it’s place, the churches we attend seem to have no problem singing, “WE and Jesus, WE got our own thing goin’. WE don’t need anybody to tell us what it’s all about.”

Same thing, different verse.

]]> By: Rob http://www.russellmoore.com/2011/01/28/the-cross-and-the-jukebox-me-and-jesus/#comment-68688 Rob Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:51:44 +0000 http://www.russellmoore.com/?p=6121#comment-68688 Good message, particularly in how we can sometimes read the messages of songs the wrong way, and I appreciate your sharing how your perception of the message behind the song changed over time. I've honestly never heard this before, but it's a pretty catchy tune. I am a little perplexed, though, that you actually once sang along with "Tone Loc" and "Wild thing"? I'm hoping you were just being silly about that, right? Right? Good message, particularly in how we can sometimes read the messages of songs the wrong way, and I appreciate your sharing how your perception of the message behind the song changed over time. I’ve honestly never heard this before, but it’s a pretty catchy tune.

I am a little perplexed, though, that you actually once sang along with “Tone Loc” and “Wild thing”? I’m hoping you were just being silly about that, right? Right?

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