The Swo Need to Understand the Gospel Songs

Pastor Ossimba also said that adults in the church sing Bulu songs that they have no understanding of. They are singing everything with as little comprehension as English speakers when they sing "Kumbaya." How many think it must mean "come by us"? Who can parse it and explain its meanings and applications to a life lived on the edge? The Swo who sing Bulu are in the exact same position as we are singing Kumbaya. They are incapable of translating their Bulu hymns or of feeding their thirsty souls on the meaning held within. But we know that the German nation was as much transformed by the hymns Luther wrote as by anything else he did. The will of God is that they should be worshiping God in their hearts and with their minds. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God." Col. 3:16 (ESV)