Forever

We're always playing with tweaking of lyrics around here. Al just sent this e-mail regarding the song "Forever":

Give thanks to the Lord our God and King His love endures forever.
For He is good He is above all things, His love endures forever.
Sing Praise. Sing Praise.
Sing Praise. Sing Praise.
Forever God is faithful, forever God is strong, forever God is with us, forever….

© 2001 Chris Tomlin, worshiptogether.com songs (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)

Al wrote:
I started playing with a Christ centered verse...

He saved us through His only Son.
His love endures forever.
Through His cross, it’s all been done.
His love endures forever.
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It is fun working in a place where people are always thinking creatively.

(And for those who say "It is not legal to rewrite the words of a song currently under copyright without the author's permission", I'll just say "relax". At least one nationally recognized composer of Contemporary worship music, when I shared our Christmas season verse to his song, replied "Hey, I do that all the time too, in my church". We can't, won't ever release it on a CD and I'll never make any money off it, but we're just tweaking stuff to make it a good fit here at CTK. Let's face it, some current worship music never even mentions Jesus (and "Forever" by Tomlin, as great a song as it is, is one of those.) And others have lousy poetry or lousy theology.