Following American Idol’s season 7 “Idol Gives Back” episode on FOX, viewers raced online to react to pop-star competition contestants performing Darlene Zschech’s contemporary worship staple, “Shout to the Lord.” Some regarded this performance, which was on the sixth-highest-ranked television program of that week, as a sign of impending religious revival. Others criticized the performance of contemporary worship music (CWM) on a secular program. Some thought it was overt proselytization; others believed it was inauthentic worship.

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Excerpted from Becoming What We Sing: Formation through Contemporary Worship Music by David Lemley ©2021 (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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