Interdependence: Has Your Association Lost That Lovin’ Feeling?

A Concept for Local Denominational Organizations and Judicatories

(Written by George Bullard and first published by The Baptist Paper at TheBaptistPaper.org.)

(The Righteous Brothers — You Tube Photo)

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“In 1964, music producer Phil Spector commissioned songwriters Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann to write the song, “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling.” It was then recorded by the Righteous Brothers and became a No. 1 hit. 

It is still popular six decades later. Tom Cruise sings it in the original “Top Gun” movie. At least five generations of people around the world are familiar with it. Its popularity goes on and on and on.

Why?

It speaks to our basic desire to have deep, meaningful, dependable, loving relationships — and the sadness we experience when this love is wounded or lost. “