everybodyduck: Get in the Plate
Another everybodyduck song, if you can imagine that. This one, “Get in the Plate,” is a pretty good treatment of the idea that we can go to church, throw some money in the plate, and be done with things:
We mechanically obey
And scrape our scraps off in the plate so God can eat.
10% so very small
Most don’t feel it though at all
Just a fulfillment of a holy quota we guess we should keep
We believe what God desires is our money
The whole gift of giving we’ve completely missed
And while my solution may at first seem funny
If you truly want to give God what He wants I must insist
Get in the plate
Blow the ushers mind
When the offering plate is passed just climb in one foot at a time
Get in the plate
Try something new
Jesus won’t accept your offering until you’ve offered you
We’ll need forklifts in the aisles
Just to move the bodies piled
In the offering plate so high it’ll scrape the roof
No one ever will complain
Singing [something i can’t understand] ….
But this dream world is in [can’t understand these lyrics]
Do you tithe to ease the guilt you feel inside?
Death to self is what the gospel is demanding
So put your patronizing gifts away get in the plate and ride
Get in the plate
Blow the ushers mind
When the offering plate is passed just climb in one foot at a time
Get in the plate
Try something new
Jesus won’t accept your offering until you’ve offered you
We believe what God desires is our money
The whole gift of giving we’ve completely missed
And while my solution may at first seem funny
If you truly want to give God what He wants I must insist
Get in the plate
Blow the ushers mind
When the offering plate is passed just climb in one foot at a time
Get in the plate
Try something new
Jesus won’t accept your offering until you’ve offered you