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From the album All The Pain That Money Can Buy,
The Way was a
#1 hit for Fastball in 1998.
Songwriter:
Anthony M. Scalzo
J's Journal:
The Apostle Paul was not your average missionary, so why should we expect him to have an average mission statement? Check out what he says in Romans 15:20: "It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation."
Paul's life was as a missionary was glorious but it wasn't glamorous. In 2 Corinthians 1:24-26, he recounted some of the hardships he'd faced: "Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers."
But Paul still kept going ... and going ... and going. As he said in Romans 10:14, "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?"
Stats:
Genre: Pop
Length: 4:14
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Fast Paul
Parody of "The Way" by Fastball
(Rom. 10:14, 15:20; Acts 9:2; Acts 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22)
He made up his mind then he started acting
He left to find the ones that God would save
There's people who eternal life are lacking
But how will they know it without preachers showing the Way?
He laid down that line in Romans 10:14
But Paul had more important things to say
The letters Paul wrote down they are exhorting
Us to get going and out there to show them the Way
Anyone could see the world if they wanted to stay with Paul
'cause he'd always run to wherever God called
To different countries and every sort of place
You can see his travels would lead him everywhere
The whole way to Rome but he didn't get scared
He wanted to find those who hadn't yet heard the Way that saves
The churches sprang up and he organized them
He left in charge the ones that God ordained
He just wrote lots of letters for to guide them
If you don't know them, go out and read Romans today
Anyone could see the world if they wanted to stay with Paul
"Let me go to somewhere they've never been told.
If everyone's stuck here -- we'll never get no-one saved!"
He could see his travels would lead him everywhere
You know that in Romans 15 he declared:
"I wanna preach Christ where they haven't yet heard the Way that saves
Anyone could see the world if they wanted to stay with Paul
But if your line's busy you'll never get called
You'll never get rung if -- you never get bold and brave
You can see his travels takin' him everywhere
The whole way to Rome but he didn't get scared
He wanted the highway -- Cause that's where he'd heard the Way – to save
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