What type of people wrote the songs and how they write them?
Probably these are questions that have been remained unanswered over the history of PNG Praise and Worship Songs. I have faced different issues over the years acknowledging the right authors of the praise and worship songs sung throughout PNG. For instance some years back I was copying down a PNG worship lyrics (the actual song was created by a PNG musician which both of us had no idea who he was) for a friend and came up to the situation where both of us couldn't confirm a right word in the song line. After later confrontations towards the situation this taught came alive in me that "What about other songs that I've been singing? Are all words sung correctly? Am I not singing it differently from what the original author wrote? How will the composer feel if he hears the song again being altered without his permission; especially replacing the lyrics as per a new understanding by oneself)"
Obvously it's not that serious with many of us how we sing the songs since there's no copyright law that governs and guides the songs journey.
But deep down we must realize the importance of the song creation.
These authors and composers have seek for the words (lyrics) through prayer and meditation by the word of God before putting them through lyrics for us to be lead to where they've been. That's how we joined them in worship... If we sing it correctly, then we will say what they said. We will hear what they heard. We will see what they saw. We will feel what they felt. That is the certainty of how the same God who touches those composers moves in the same Praise and Worship Song Lyrics through Tok Pisin Language lyrics.
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