What does this even mean?

"Christian" music these days is getting to be simply annoying to me. But I fear that it's actually doing damage to our numbers, our members, and the body as a whole. Take the following snippet, for example.

In the song "Tonight" by Jeremy Camp, there is a line in the chorus that says

Tonight, I will realize to take hold of this very moment

What does that even mean? In songwriting, it's one thing to use artistic license to convey complex meaning with few words (using metaphors or other relational methods). And it's quite common to use sentence fragments lyrically, as well. But what exactly does this line - captured within the chorus, so it's drummed into your head - mean??

The answer is.......nothing. If I saw this written outside of the context of a song, I would think it was written by someone with a poor grasp of the English language. As it is, I think it's written by someone with a poor grasp of biblical discipleship.

No regrets

Something is being lost in today's churches. One of my cousins made a statement once that she "tried not to regret anything" that she ever did, because at least she could learn something from it.

But the problem is....we're supposed to regret things. We're flawed creatures, and will be until the Lord returns. And when we sin, the attitude of a person with a godly heart will be to repent. Regret is interchangeable with remorse (and, coincidentally, with sorrow), which is required for true repentance.

Now, I've heard the "don't regret anything" story before, but never from anyone who professed to be a Christian. And since that statement was made, I've heard it from other "Christian" sources, as well.

So, my question is: who's teaching this philosophy (even "new theology") in our churches, and why?

I guess the short answer is that its genesis lies in people bringing that idea in from the world, and never abandoning it in light of the truth found in the Bible. After all, people have been doing that to Christianity for nearly two thousand years.

I just hope this one doesn't stick around like some others have....