Viva

Selfmindead - Rules to Break/Laws to Change

I’m getting bored with this culture and these old traditions
I’m getting bored with this people and their boring ideals

All the real songs never get heard and all the real art is worth nothing
All the real words never get heard and everything remains the same

I’m getting bored with this culture where everything remains the same
I’m getting bored with this people they all remain the same

Stop the cycle
Make progression
Yeah

Stop the cycle
We have rules to break…


Something about this song has always rung true with me. I find it especially true when looking at North American Christian culture. We, despite believing in the ultimate creator, have settled for mediocrity and safety in our creative expressions. Our art seems to be Precious Moments figurines and bands made to sound and look like a sanitized facsimile of something non-Christian. Should not our creativity and art be expressive of and glorious to our God, the source of our life and being?

Here is some of the artwork from the accompanying book by Christopher Koelle to Derek Webb's The Ringing Bell