If you know the songs of the world better than you know the great hymns of our faith, then the world’s soundtrack will have a greater impact on you than the church’s. If you’ve seen certain movies or shows so many times you can quote from them but have not committed to memory passages of Scripture, such as the prayer Jesus told us to pray (Matt. 6:9–13), or the psalms that served as Jesus’ prayer book, or the sermon that describes Jesus’ kingdom manifesto (Matt. 5–7), then the sermons of the world will be closer to your heart than Scripture.
