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<\/a>I cannot hope to fill the role of Scott Bailey while he is taking a blog hiatus<\/a>. Scott does a wonderful job of highlighting issues in Christian\u00a0music and does so in a humorous and entertaining way, and the blogosphere is far less fun when he is not around.\u00a0
Nevertheless,\u00a0having participated recently\u00a0in a meme about problematic Contemporary Christian Music songs<\/a>, and having included praise and worship songs in that category, I thought of another one that has one line that bugs me every time I hear it. It is \u201cKing of Majesty<\/a>\u201d and it includes the line \u201cThese words are not made up.\u201d <\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t?! Then what the heck are they?!?!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I cannot hope to fill the role of Scott Bailey while he is taking a blog hiatus. Scott does a wonderful job of highlighting issues in Christian\u00a0music and does so in a humorous and entertaining way, and the blogosphere is far less fun when he is not around.\u00a0 Nevertheless,\u00a0having participated recently\u00a0in a meme about problematic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNo Substitute for Scott Bailey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I cannot hope to fill the role of Scott Bailey while he is taking a blog hiatus. 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