Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says he understands the concerns and the controversy regarding the lyrics in Tauren Wells’ song “Crazy About You,” but because he has a humble, teachable spirit and who, by the way, from his video, he is a gifted teacher and future lead pastor that the church and the Christian music industry need to give this kid a break and help him make this right. Now, regarding the concerns that Bible-believing Christians have:
1. God is not “Crazy” about anybody or anything, so the title itself is irreverent and disrespectful; however, as a young man, we understand what he is trying to say. In addition to that the title “He is Crazy About You” can be seen as an attempt to give the song a dual meaning as many Christian singers have wrongly done, and that is, trying to give the song a Christian meaning and a Secular meaning to increase record sales.
2. God may not be “MAD” at anybody, but the Bible tells us “GOD JUDGETH THE RIGHTEOUS, AND GOD IS ANGRY WITH THE WICKED EVERY DAY.” This verse addresses two questionable statements in the lyrics of the song. (A.) God is angry with sinners disobeying His commandments. (B.) God will hold their past against them if they do not trust Christ as Savior. A famous sermon comes to mind titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
3. God loves everybody; however, He does not “hold people close” if they are sinning against Him. In fact, the Bible teaches the fellowship between God and the Christian is broken when we sin against the Lord even though the relationship is intact through Jesus Christ, and even though the Lord has not moved we feel at a distance from Him because of our sin. We do not feel like He is hugging us when we are living in sin in disobedience to Him.
Daniel Whyte III says Tauren Wells is a good kid, he means well, and this is a well-intentioned song, and Whyte feels that a veteran Christian songwriter can fix it pretty quickly. Whyte says, in fact, his daughter Danni can fix it in five minutes if she was so led of the Lord to do so. Let’s give this young brother a break and help him fix it for the glory of God. Whyte asks everyone to pray for him as he goes into the toughest job in the world — being a pastor.
At least thirteen radio stations have refused to play Tauren Well’s song ‘Crazy About You’ over concerns that the lyrics were ‘biblically in error,’ as reported by Church Leaders.
According to his bio, Tauren Wells is a “celebrated recording artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, with 10 GRAMMY Award nominations, six number 1’s, 225+ million career video views, six GMA Dove Awards, Billboard Music Award nominations, and over 1 billion global streams to date.”
In a few months, he and his wife will be the new lead pastors of a church plant in Texas.
He recently shared a video on Instagram about pushback to his song, revealing “I’ve had a lot of people that have taken issue with my song ‘crazy about you.’ It’s kind of crazy” and that “even radio programmers won’t play it because they feel there is something wrong about the theology of the song.”
We’ve included a sampling here, with Wells sharing that the lyrics in bold have caused the most problems.
He’s never been mad at you
He’s only been madly in love
And it’s never been about what you do
It’s always been about what He’s done
It’s something you just can’t hear enough
He’s crazy about you
Didn’t wanna live without you
He traded the stars for a chance at your heart
Just to show you it’s true
He’s never held your past against you
He’s only held you close
He’d never give and take it back
You are the one He chose
And the more of Him you know
You’ll know
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