Derek Webb – What Matters More Lyrics

Derek Webb · Stockholm Syndrome

Christian

You say always treat people like you'd like to be
I guess you love being hated for your sexuality
You love when people put words in your mouth
About what you believe make you sound like a freak

'Cause if you really believed what you say you believe
You wouldn't be so damned reckless with the words you speak
You wouldn't silently consent when the liars speak
Denying all the dying of the remedy

Tell me, brother what matters more to you
Tell me, sister what matters more to you

If I can see what's in your heart by what comes out of your mouth
Then it sure looks to me like being straight is all it's about
It looks like being hated for all the wrong things
Like chasing the wind while the pendulum swings

'Cause we can talk and debate till we're blue in the face
About the language and tradition that He's coming to save
And meanwhile we sit just like we don't have give a shit
About fifty thousand people who are dying today

Tell me brother what matters more to you?
Tell me sister what matters more to you?

Comments (2)

Anonymous 2010-02-03 07:38:00

The answer seems to elude the author. The answer is that it all matters equally. I know this is hard for our finite minds to wrap around but God is not limited by our limitations. He wants us to care about holiness as much as we care about poverty. Sadly, our own smallness boxes us into one or the other or another because 'apart from Christ I can do nothing'. The solution...'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me'. Remember the warning 'woe to those who call good evil and evil good'. God's mercy is truly triumphant and His grace amazing but He is also not a liar. He never lied in His Word. He and His Word are One. So, love the repentant sinner, hate the sin because God does. But those who follow a Ben Franklin bible...pulling out the verses they want the world to ignore, sanitizing truth? Not for me. Still, I have many loved ones caught in addictive lifestyles and I always tell myself that it is not God's wrath but His kindness that leads us to repentance. Pray because you know what happens when God's people pray.
Anonymous 2010-02-24 11:37:00

No one cared about ending an AIDS epidemic until it started to affect heterosexual people and children - or until it was at least publicized that way. Gay people and Drug users were just "Filling up the consequences of their sinful choices" and the TRAGIC conclusion Christians came to as a result of that was that THEREFORE we do not need to sacrifice our lives to end AIDS. It is not our burden.