The vague spirituality of choruses often fails the test of intelligibility that Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 14. It is for easier, for example, to understand what the Ebenezer is of "Come Thou Fount" than the river that flows in the chorus of "Shine, Jesus, Shine".
We should understand that the subjective depends on the objective. Right emotions depend on, and derive from, sound doctrine.
From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home.