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		<title>Spotlight on songwriters putting action to faith: Keith Green</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a search for song lyrics centered around the theme of putting action to faith, I came across &#8220;Asleep in the Light&#8221; by Keith Green, which I&#8217;ve heard many times over the years (In fact, his &#8220;No Compromise&#8221; album was the first compact disc I purchased). This guy had a major impact as a musician, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During a search for song lyrics centered around the theme of putting action to faith, I came across &#8220;Asleep in the Light&#8221; by Keith Green, which I&#8217;ve heard many times over the years (In fact, his &#8220;No Compromise&#8221; album was the first compact disc I purchased). This guy had a major impact as a musician, and my mom saw him in concert before he was killed in a tragic plane crash in 1982. He was known for some inspiring stuff; one being his policy of letting people pay whatever they could afford for his concerts and his albums (one of which 61,000 copies went out for free, before the Internet!). Another crazy thing was the house he and his wife rented out so they could care for the prostitutes, drug addicts, and homeless. Some of his songs such as &#8220;O Lord, You&#8217;re Beautiful&#8221; and &#8220;There Is A Redeemer&#8221; are still known today. And he was quoted by his wife Melody in the book &#8220;A Cry in the Wilderness,&#8221; as saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to quit playing church and start being the Church.&#8221; The key lesson I find here: Keith Green called his fellow Christians to get out there and start serving people, and he backed up his words by living it out.<br />
<a href="http://comfortbetrays.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/keith_green.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-196   alignright" style="margin-right: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" title="Keith Green" src="http://comfortbetrays.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/keith_green-150x150.jpg" alt="Keith Green" width="150" height="150" /></a><br />
Below are the lyrics for &#8220;Asleep in the Light,&#8221; which I&#8217;m adding to a list of <a href="http://comfortbetrays.com/blog/music/">other related songs</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Do you see, do you see<br />
All the people sinking down<br />
Don’t you care, don’t you care<br />
Are you gonna let them drown<br />
How can you be so numb<br />
Not to care if they come<br />
You close your eyes<br />
And pretend the job’s done</p>
<p>“Oh bless me Lord, bless me Lord”<br />
You know it’s all I ever hear<br />
No one aches, no one hurts<br />
No one even sheds one tear</p>
<p>But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds<br />
And He cares for your needs<br />
And you just lay back<br />
And keep soaking it in<br />
Oh, can’t you see it’s such a sin?</p>
<p>Cause He brings people to you door<br />
And you turn them away<br />
As you smile and say<br />
“God bless you, be at peace”<br />
And all heaven just weeps<br />
Cause Jesus came to your door<br />
You’ve left him out on the streets</p>
<p>Open up open up<br />
And give yourself away<br />
You see the need, you hear the cries<br />
So how can you delay</p>
<p>God’s calling and you’re the one<br />
But like Jonah you run<br />
He’s told you to speak<br />
But you keep holding it in<br />
Oh can’t you see it’s such a sin?</p>
<p>The world is sleeping in the dark<br />
That the church just can’t fight<br />
Cause it’s asleep in the light<br />
How can you be so dead<br />
When you’ve been so well fed<br />
Jesus rose from the grave<br />
And you, you can’t even get out of bed</p>
<p>Oh, Jesus rose from the dead<br />
Come on, get out of your bed</p>
<p>How can you be so numb<br />
Not to care if they come<br />
You close your eyes<br />
And pretend the job’s done</p>
<p>Don’t close your eyes<br />
Don’t pretend the job&#8217;s done<br />
Come away, come away, come away with Me my love<br />
Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, my love</p></blockquote>
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