BIG BROTHER?

As a member of CCLI (yes, Jeff, I got your email and will answer soon,) I'm able to sign in to view my songs as well as all songs included in the SongSelect program. This allows me to check lyrics, copyright info, rights ownership of every song registered with CCLI.

This week, I was looking to double check the lyrics of Rich Mullins' "I See You." We're using the song for a video in our upcoming God 101 series and I was debating playing the song live to videor or just using the CD version during the video.

Now, when you sign into SongSelect, you hit a main menu page. Usually, this page includes for or five small links to some of the top songs of the day...in addition to this, there's usually a flash banner running at the top of the page. This banner will show some promotional shot of an artist, list the song and add some quote like:
"Martin Smith's 'Here I Am' offers a heartfelt cry from a generation longing for change."
This banner scrolls constantly, so I don't pay much attention to it.

So, imagine my surprise when I log into the site on Tuesday and the banner has a giant picture of Rich Mullins and giant words "I See You" lighting up the screen.

I've NEVER seen Rich Mullins on this flash show, never seen CCLI have any sort of link to Mullins' music...

Is CCLI watching me?

An excerpt from "Making/Being Made," written by Rich Mullins;
published in Release Magazine (c) 1992

The Bible is a very great book. It is the written witness to God's revelation of Himself in His Word: Jesus Christ. And, if you like, you can make a great deal of it.

You can speculate about it: This will make you a philosopher and people will think you are deep and very smart.

You can pontificate on it: This will make you a preacher and people will marvel at your courage and gift for oratory.

You can adulate it: This will make you its number one fan. You can display your very fine collection of its various versions all over your house.

You can attack it: This will make you a skeptic and people will admire your honest, blind determination to live in your grim, faithless little world.

You can adapt it: This will make you a youth pastor or a Christian musician or a feminist theologian or a popular author. You, too, can be the icing on a cake.

You can systematize it: This will make you a theologian and people will quote you and regard those quotes as some sort of authority.

You can criticize it: This will make you a scholar - and those who are not put off by your egg-headedness will confer on you M.A.'s and D.D.'s.

You can theorize about it: This will make you an expert in biblical slants on contemporary issues like political science, psychology, church growth, economics, sex, and marriage.

You can ponder it: This will make you a mystic and people will turn to you for spiritual advice (and from you when they get it).

You can practice it: This will make you a model citizen - a fair, generous, and righteous (if somewhat uptight) person.

I miss you, Rich.
So, guys, which one's your favorite?