Knowledge vs. Ignorance

We've mentioned much in class about the many modern worship songs that are simply filled with fluff. They are not songs that are theologically strong. Many seem to care much more about the music of the song and not the text. I read something in GPTG for Monday that spurred me to make a connection of maybe why our modern worship songs are not nearly as solid and "evergreen" as the songs from years past.

On pages 252-253 Jones talks about the author of hymns. He mentions that often the best hymn writers are ministers who are informed and educated in the Word. This made me think on those who wrote hymns in the past. They were theologians, philosophers, etc. They were very educated people. Also we have the more common people who, maybe were not pastors or great scholars, but they knew the Word very deeply.

Maybe this is why we have so many meaningless songs in this present age. We have many people who are not scholars, pastors, theologians, educated peoples, those who know the Word extremely well, etc. writing worship songs. Is it a surprise that many songs around today are insubstantial and uninformed, songs that are not Jesus-centered, when we have those who do not know the Word well writing worship songs?

This isn't the reason for worship songs that are lacking today. It is just one of the reasons. Are my thoughts correct? What do you think of this theory?