No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green by Melody Green

Author:Melody Green [Green, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: book, ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2008-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

Don’t bother coming at all? I wondered. In the studio, Keith and Bill had a long discussion about it before the final vocal was laid down.

“Keith, I really feel like that statement is going to make people feel condemned,” he objected, “especially people who might not know the Lord.”

“It’s mainly for Christians who should know better,” Keith replied. “I really believe I need to say it that strongly to make the point.”

“But it’s a hard line to draw,” Bill came back, shaking his head.

“Well, it’s the line I’m walking,” Keith replied.

I had already voiced my concerns about it to Keith by this time. I knew he wanted to make a strong statement, but I wondered if there was another way he could do it. Some people were going to be offended, but even that wasn’t my main concern. The bottom line for me was whether the statement really represented God’s heart toward us. Of course he wants us to come to him every day. But even when we blow it, I couldn’t imagine God saying, “Don’t bother coming at all!” I felt really torn. I knew Keith was trying to shake people spiritually like he would if they were sleeping through a fire that would destroy them if they didn’t wake up. He felt such a strong sense of urgency.

He’d told me, “If you saw a child about to get hit by a truck and the best you could do was kick him out of the way just before impact, you’d do it. He might end up with a few broken ribs, but at least he’d be alive. Any parent would thank you for saving his life—they wouldn’t be angry about the broken ribs! You did the most loving thing you could do.”

In the end, Keith made the decision to record the song as it stood. Even though the lyric never really sat right with me, I also wanted to see religious apathy shaken at its core—even in my own life. So I totally supported Keith’s heart in the message he wanted to convey.

Another song with a strong message for believers was called “Asleep in the Light.” We had no trouble with the lyrics in this one.

Keith got the idea from a phrase in the book Why Revival Tarries written by Leonard Ravenhill, who had come to America in 1950 after being involved in many revivals in Great Britain. Keith just happened to find the book on someone’s coffee table during a time when he was asking God to help him be less intense. After finishing it he said, “What is God doing? Letting me read this book was like pouring gasoline on a fire!” So stirred by the book’s concepts, Keith hoped it’s message put into a song would spread like fire.

Do you see, do you see,

All the people sinking down?

Don’t you care, don’t you care,

Are you gonna let them drown?

How can you be so numb, Not to care if they come?

You close your eyes

And pretend the job’s done. .

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