By John Pierce
During my Sunday morning drive up to the First Baptist of Commerce, in Northeast Georgia, I hit upon a country radio station that had devoted a segment to Gospel music. There were classics like “Beulah Land” along with other harmonized tunes unfamiliar to my ears.
Then there was “Gospel Boogie.” The chorus, if I recall the songwriting spendor correctly, goes: “Do the Gospel boogie, It helps your soul, The Devil, he’ll have to go.”
Since it’s hard to do the “Gospel Boogie” while driving, I just spent the time wondering why my seminary profs failed to teach us the good stuff of theological understanding.
All of those years I spent among Baptists, Presbyterians and theological educators of other traditions, and not one lecture on the “Gospel Boogie.” I feel short changed.
I’ve heard the Gospel. I’ve heard boogie. Just never heard them together before yesterday.
Director of the Jesus Worldview Initiative at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and former executive editor and publisher at Good Faith Media.