It’s not a surprise to me that Christians would either have affair, or turn roundly and harshly on someone who has erred. I’ll have to watch the youtube video.įunnily enough I’ve never heard the guy, but I despise that sort of treatment. I recognize the refrain, but I don’t recognize the verses. There always needs to be room for grace and forgiveness, even amongst the penalties. I, for one, am pretty glad that God didn’t shun me the way the media shunned Michael English. He is fantastic and his testimony is filled with feeling, redemption and thankfulness to God. God certainly didn’t give up on him and I am glad about that. He is now coming back and he is stronger than ever. However, they should not last a lifetime and strip a person of everything they have. I agree that what he did was wrong and there are penalties for all our wrong actions. I have been following Michael English for a long time and have witnessed how the media treated him. You can watch him perform it on this YouTube video.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.Ĩ Responses (including trackbacks) to “Sunday lyrics: In Christ Alone”
If you are interested in reading more about Michael’s story, grab a copy of his new autobiography: The Prodigal Comes Home.īelow are the lyrics to In Christ Alone one of my favoriate songs by him. What do you think?įortunately, thanks to a loving and forgiving God, Michael has remarried, has a beautiful little girl and his slowly rebuilding his career. Don’t misunderstand, what he did was wrong and he deserved some type of penalty, but to completely turn our backs on him and his family just seems wrong to me. I often wondered what would have happened to his marriage and career had we practiced a little more forgiveness and prayer, instead of placing the scarlet letter on him as we did. He and his wife Lisa divorced shortly after the scandal. I felt the whole situation was incorrectly handled by the industry and us as fans. While I understand the Christian music industry not wanting to support his affair, at the same time I wonder what happened to our message of forgiveness and “depise the sin, not the sinner”. Within a few days, Michael returned his Dove awards and disappeared from the Christian music scene. He was dropped by his record label, removed from all promotions and Christian music stations pulled his songs from play. Michael English admitted to having an extramarital affair just two weeks after receiving the Dove awards. In 1994, he was nominated for and won 2 Dove awards and was #1 on Christian music charts.Ĭhanged all of that and rocked the Christian music world with a scandal that caught many off guard. His ability to take a song and make it incredibly powerful through his vocals caused Christian music listeners world wide to turn their heads in a big way. In the early 90s, Contemporary Christian and Gospel singer, Michael English was quickly working his way up the charts.
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