Every now and then a new song comes along with lyrics that strike the heart and share a profound message.
Casting Crown's new song, Start Right Here is one such song, premiered on YouTube July 25, 2020.
The message in this music video has a close link with my previous blog, The Missing Link (February 2018), which I encourage you to review, or read for the first time.
Both Casting Crowns' song, and The Missing Link blog encourage us to check our hearts. What do we genuinely want to do, and are we trying to do that? Putting our ministry desires into action has to start with our hearts, and that's what Casting Crowns are reminding us; it has to "start right here" in the heart.
We watch our worship on a screen
We got a Rockstar preacher
Who won't wake us from our dreams
We want out blessings in our pocket
We keep our missions overseas
But for the hurting in our cities
Would we even cross the street?
Huh but we wanna see the heart set free and the tyrants kneel
The walls fall down and our land be healed
But church if we want to see a change in the world out there
The walls fall down and our land be healed
But church if we want to see a change in the world out there
It's got to start right here
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
I'm like the brother of the prodigal
Who turned his nose and puffed his chest
He didn't run off like his brother
But his soul was just as dead
What if the church on Sunday
Was still the church on Monday too?
What if we came down from our towers
And walked a mile in someone's shoes?
Who turned his nose and puffed his chest
He didn't run off like his brother
But his soul was just as dead
What if the church on Sunday
Was still the church on Monday too?
What if we came down from our towers
And walked a mile in someone's shoes?
Hmm 'cause we wanna see the heart set free and the tyrants kneel
The walls fall down and our land be healed
But church if we want to see a change in the world out there
The walls fall down and our land be healed
But church if we want to see a change in the world out there
It's got to start right here
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
We're the people who are called by His name
If we'll surrender all our pride and turn from our ways
He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sin
He will heal our land but it starts right here
We're the people who are called by His name
If we'll surrender all our pride and turn from our ways
He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sin
He will heal our land
If we'll surrender all our pride and turn from our ways
He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sin
He will heal our land but it starts right here
We're the people who are called by His name
If we'll surrender all our pride and turn from our ways
He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sin
He will heal our land
It's got to start right here
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
It's got to start right here
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
It's got to start right now
Lord, I'm starting right here
Lord, I'm starting right now
Sources:
The Missing Link, Toward the Goal, https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7451863498628410974/7019368323690577701 (26/2/2018)
Official Lyric Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvfagBOHJE&list=PLo5XSz_h3T2jjL7AEJ9Iuvuwha96mTDoB&index=19 (19/10/2020)
Songwriters: Mark John Hall / Bernie Herms / Seth David Mosley / Matthew Joseph West
Start Right Here lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group