Worship songs with questionable original contexts may be acceptable in personal use but congregational use requires sensitivity to the consciences of all present

Winger uses Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah as an example: the chorus is beautiful but the full song is sexually explicit and inappropriate. Some Christians sing only the chorus or rewrite verses. He has no personal objection to a rewritten version used privately, but for congregational use one must ask whether using this song stumbles anyone or wounds the conscience of those in the room.