Trailer: Scripture Untangled | S3 Ep 1 | Brian Doerksen | Scripture and the Art of Worship
Typically, when I'm setting a Scripture to song
I'll open up on my laptop, six different translations
in columns, and then I'll look for phrasing that
seems to sing. And then where I can't find anything
in the translations, I will paraphrase it myself.
You know, and then some people get, you know,
get really uptight, like: Oh, you don't want to
change the Word of God! Well, that's actually
not a very helpful way of thinking about it
because every single time we read a Scripture
or we read a new translation of the Scripture,
we're interpreting it through even just the way
we speak it, so we're constantly interpreting
and paraphrasing, but we're respecting the source
because we're going...our heart is to convey the
dynamic equivalent of what the people in the
first culture would have heard when they heard
that Scripture to what our people
and our culture needs now.
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Brian is a songwriter, award-winning recording artist and songwriting instructor (founder of ‘Unlocking Your Songs’). His songs are known and sung internationally in faith communities of all kinds, including ‘Come Now is the Time to Worship’, ‘Refiner’s Fire’, ‘Hope Of The Nations’ and ‘The River’.
But most of all, he loves spending time with his high-school sweetheart Joyce (they have been married for 38 years.) Brian & Joyce have four adult daughters and two adult sons with Fragile X Syndrome.
In this episode, Brian gets very personal about his own faith journey, doubt, how he wrestles with Scripture to untangle it for himself, and offer it back to congregations in song. We think you are going to be richly strengthened by his reflections in this episode. Also, don’t miss the end of this episode where Brian plays a song for us that hasn’t been released yet!
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