RE: [Worship] A CCLI Question

["Steve Cobb" <steve@worshipfulheart.com>]

My general feelings about this when dealing with Video slides is to 
decide what's more important. In my opinion, a ccli number within the 
projected announcements with some sort of decleration that all song 
lyrics used are under that number would suffice. (of course that's my 
opinion....not in the letter of the law) In my opinion, a ccli number 
on every slide....or even on song titles are annoying and would not 
really be a help in worship. To me, it's a constant reminder of the 
commercialism that is within the faith. Don't get me wrong....I'm all 
for copyrights. BUT any true christian song writer and lawyer would 
not pursue (once again....in my opinion) a church because they only 
put their ccli number in the announcements, or just in the bulletin. 
In my opinion, the greater importance is worshipping, not the ccli 
number. I would imagine that ccli numbers and copyrights are of 
little importance to God. He owns it all and He promises to 
provide....whether or not we get credit and payment for what He has 
given to us. Once again, don't misunderstand me. It is my dream to 
make enough money through music to be able to quit other jobs and 
pursue it full time (Copyrights help protect musicians and their 
right to pursue their passion full-time), but I would never want to 
be guilty of taking the letter of the law further than the spirit of 
it and suing a church because they didn't show there ccli number 
enough times. I have always had a problem with actual scripture being 
copyrighted. I can understand notes and other extra inserts.....but 
now by law we're not allowed to quote a certain amount of scripture 
without giving credit to NIV, NKJV, NASB, or other translations? An 
NIV Bible that I have states: "Any commentary or other Biblical 
reference work produced for commercial sale that uses the New 
International Version must obtain written permission for use of the 
NIV text" ?! Didn't God write the Bible? Why on earth would I need to 
obtain written permission from any group of humans to quote Bible 
scripture in a book? I believe in paying all who are worthy of their 
wages....including songwriters, publishers, managers and all 
others...my only point is that it seems some people in today's 
society may be taking that right too far and end up requiring so much 
control over 'their' work that the work's intended ministry is 
hindered. Anyway....I'll quit rambling :) I hope you all have a 
wonderful day.
-- 
Steve Cobb
Worshipful Heart Ministries
www.worshipfulheart.com

"Hypocrites in the church? Yes, and in the lodge, and at home. Don't 
hunt through the church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the 
glass. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less."
~Billy Sunday

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