When I hear some recent church songs I wonder whether Christianity has become a Jesus-only movement!
Some songs talk about nothing else but Jesus. Of course we all love Jesus but the calling of the Son is to lead us to the Father.
I appreciate that the Trinity is heavy-duty teaching in so many ways because heretics stand ready to demote the Son to a mere creature and the Moslems want to relegate him to an inferior prophet to Mohammed. And Judaism sees him in even lower terms.
And Christians too claim not to understand it! Yet the teaching makes the Christian religion distinctive among all religions!
But we are Christians, followers of Jesus because he is God's son who reveals the Father through the power of the Spirit.
What we do in our songs/hymns we are likely to do in our prayers. So some will pray to the Son directly and never mention the Father. That's not the practice of the biblical writers who consistently pray to the Father through the Son in the power of the Spirit (e.g., Eph 1.16-20). Even the Lord Jesus in the Lord's Prayer teaches us to pray to the Father.
Why then do we find this poor hymnology that fails to get the persons of the Godhead in their rightful places?
