Song title: So in Love

Artist(s): Jason Nelson

Reviewer: CoolImprov

Chorus

I'm madly, insanely, desperately in love with you.
And nothing will ever distract me from loving you

I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you
I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you

Verse 1

You graced me, embraced me, you stayed with me when everybody walked away
You loved me, unconditionally that's why I will forever give you the praise

Chorus

I'm madly, insanely, desperately in love with you.
And nothing will ever distract me from loving you.

I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you
I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you

Verse 2

You see me, you know me, you still love me
Thanks for your amazing grace
And my heart is turned toward you that's why I love for the rest of my days.

Chorus

I'm madly, insanely, desperately in love with you.
And nothing will ever distract me from loving you

I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you
I'm in love with you, you Jesus
You, you

Oh, oh you have my love forever

Jason Nelson is a well-recognized voice in Christian music. Besides being a Stellar award winning artist, He is also a Pastor, Husband, and Father. For those of you who have read my reviews in the past know that I have a love-hate relationship with contemporary Gospel music. Some of it I love and a lot of it I hate.

The song that captured my attention for this review is a ditty entitled, "So in Love". A few days ago I'm driving in my vehicle and on comes this tune. It starts off, "I'm madly, insanely, desperately in love with you...." I thought to myself, "Oh, a Christian love song". Again, I said to myself (since I'm the only one in the car) "You know, we need MORE romantic, Christian based love songs". The song continued and that's when I put on the brakes and almost caused a 10 car pileup (Just kidding). Jason wasn't singing about some woman, He was singing about JESUS.

Hold up, hold up. I have a big problem when we romanticize the Saviour. "He's my heavenly boyfriend", "He's my lover", "He's my husband". I did a little research and discovered that there is a movement out there called, "The Romancing Jesus movement". Here is an example from many, of the Romancing Jesus ideology, "I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.” This closing chapter, “The Joy of Intimacy,” is her discovery of God through something akin to sexual intimacy. In a chapter laden with intimate imagery she falls in love with God again, but this time, hears him urging to respond. She wants more of him. And then, at last, she experiences some kind of spiritual climax, some understanding of what it means to fully live, of what it means to be one with Christ, to experience the deepest kind of union. “God makes love with grace upon grace, every moment a making of His love for us. Couldn’t I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin?” (From Ann Voskamp's book, One thousand gifts).

Much of Jason's song I can get with, "You graced me, embraced me, you stayed with me when everybody walked away
You loved me, unconditionally that's why I will forever give you the praise.....You see me, you know me, you still love me
Thanks for your amazing grace and my heart is turned toward you that's why I love for the rest of my days".

Amen to the above sentiments. BUT, I have a BIG problem with, "....I'm madly, insanely, desperately in love with you...." especially coming from a MAN. I don't mean to go off topic, but this Romanticizing Jesus movement in our churches is ONE of the MANY reasons men treat church like the plague. A'int no red-blooded, meat-eating, HETEROSEXUAL brother gonna be caught dead telling another MAN, "I'm in love with you", Jesus or not (No disrespect Lord).

There is a world of difference between "Loving the Lord" and being, "in love with the Lord". One is Biblical and the other is Sensual and Unbiblical.

Let me close with a quote from a blogger named Erin. She puts a nice cap on this subject. "Romanticism cannot express the essence of the Christian life accurately or Biblically. It's usefulness as a way of describing the Christian life has been greatly exaggerated, and based mostly on a wrong reading of the Song of Solomon. The theme of the Bride of Christ is important in the New Testament, but it never resulted in expressions of romanticism in the life and worship of the church. Instead, images like the bride resulted in higher esteem for the church as a redeemed community, not a more personalized and emotional individual experience for the believer. Romanticism is not a significant Biblical expression of praise, certainly not worthy of becoming a regular part of our worship, prayer, and communication of the Gospel. As understood and experienced today, romanticism is a flawed metaphor for delighting in and loving God. It is vastly inferior to scripture's own description of love for God as seeking our joy in obedience to the Lord. "Come fall in love with Jesus," is not an invitation to faith that we should endorse or repeat" (donotbesurprised.com)

In His grip,
CoolImprov