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Welcome back, fellas. This week's The Daily Blade episodes dive into music that doesn't

fit the typical contemporary worship mold. So like it or not, we are called to sing to the Lord,

and I want to expand your category of what qualifies as worship music. So yesterday we looked at

the song Awaken Alive by the rock band Skillet.

And today we're looking at the song, Blame Jesus by country music artist Drew Parker.

Now, before we get into the song, we need to have a little talk about country music.

So I grew up in Oklahoma, which means by default, I was around a bunch of country music.

And when you listen to country music, really from any era, you get a bunch of

kind of vague references to prayer and the man upstairs and the big guy in the sky and that kind of thing.

And what a lot of that leads to is something that I call country music theology. So basically

what that is, especially for people in the South, is that they think that because they believe in God,

they go to church from time to time, they were baptized when they were a kid, they have an American

flag hanging up in their garage. When they vote, they vote Republican and listen to country music,

that they all get to go to heaven when they die, right? Basically, if you check those boxes,

you get to go to heaven. Now now that might seem a little funny but

that is actually the way that a lot of people think from where i'm from they think well god is pro all

these things and i ain't never killed nobody so i guess i get to go to heaven but that's just not the case guys

i mean all of us including the good old boys that you may have grown up around have a sin debt that

they owe

to their heavenly father. And they simultaneously have no way of paying the debt. So each one of us,

regardless of the music we listen to, has to reckon with our own depravity. And we must put our

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