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"Why is this important as we go through Mark’s gospel? I think this hymn especially, gives us a perspective on who Jesus is and why Mark has as an overriding theme, Jesus, The Son Of God."
How about just read Mark? If you want a perspective of Jesus, wouldn't Jesus' words be sufficient?
I found this while looking up what "No tongue can bid me thence depart" means. What the hell does "bid thence depart" mean? There's nothing glorious about speaking gobbleygook. Doesn't mean squat that it USED TO NOT be gobblegook. NO TONGUE SPEAKS LIKE THAT. The past is dead. Not even its' memories remain. Nobody from 1863 is alive today. That has been the case for over half a century. Unless we're all going to be speaking gibberish in Heaven, speaking Secret Handshake English is in no way glorious, and, in fact, it is the exact opposite. Someone who's never been to church walks in the door, he has to practically learn a new language, HOW is that necessary or beneficial???
This is actually a rather small issue for the church at large to address. There's bigger ones. But I don't think anything but The Holy Spirit Himself can change the bigger issues. And I don't think I have enough of The Spirit indwelling in me to really say anything of note on the bigger issues.
I don't have a problem with the hymns. They are good reminders of the truths of Scripture.
But this asinine attitude like we're desecrating a grave or something by tweaking the words so that a modern ear can actually understand it without taking up a second job as a linguistic archeologist is an impediment. Of all the times people had to type out the words on a piece of paper, for people that understand this Dead speak and ALSO, just so happen, to know the way that people speak today, to at least propose some changes, by now we'd have something that was once just as glorious as "No tongue can bid me thence depart", and it probably wouldn't have taken that long to develop. We'd have had it a long time ago, probably by the time I was born if people had started undertaking it by the 1940s or somewhere around there. Instead, it's now cemented by a somewhat popular worship band, in the year 1997 no less, when that phrase had already been antiquated for at least a third of a century.