made empty in this case

Oh my word, what to think, what to think. The clip below was shown on America's most watched show:



The wondrous one and I discussed it last night. It is rather creepy for a worship song to be used by a money-making commercial enterprise. But isn't this the Willow Creek method? Use popular culture to throw out the seeds and hope some of the listeners get affected by the message? (That it seems to have been subsequently cut from the West Coast airing offers support to it having an effect, enough to require later-aired edits.)

On the other hand, only half of the final 8 are professed believers that I know of. It's likely at least one of the singers was required to sing a worship staple no differently than he would a lewd ballad. It is the height of hypocrisy for 8 singers simply to go through the motions. But as the wondrous one keenly noticed, is that radically different from your average Sunday morning congregation in American evangelical churches? Sadly, no.