Worship Lyric System
“The divine subject must be NAMED, not IMPLIED.”
A worship chorus must announce its divine subject within the first chorus. The Ambiguous Pronoun Ratio primitive operationalizes Vince Wright's Berean Test — choruses heavy on "He/You/Him" without anchoring proper noun (God / Jesus / Spirit / Lord / Father / Christ / Holy) fail. 5 substyles span modern hymn → liturgical traditional, each with a distinct tradition-policy layer.
Try It — 86 starter prompts
Browse all 86 →Each prompt is hand-tuned to exercise the worship load-bearing axis. Click to start with the prompt pre-loaded into the forge.
Jesus Holds the Fracture
A person sits in a hospital waiting room at 3 AM, holding a loved one's medical bracelet. They need to sing the name of Jesus as the one who sees broken things and doesn't look away. The song should move from paralysis into steady affirmation.
Write a modern hymn for a congregation that has lost its building to fire. They gather in a borrowed gym. The song must name Christ explicitly as foundation, and build from minor to major without sentimentality.
A youth group leader feels unequal to the task ahead. In the car alone, they invoke the Holy Spirit by name as the source of what they cannot generate. The song should be breathless and direct, not meditative.
In a contemporary anthem idiom, celebrate that God knows you not as a number or category, but by your actual name. The chorus should have a driving beat and should name the singer directly back to themselves.
86 prompts in the worship catalog · Shuffle rotates the featured + 3 alternates together
Substyles · 5
Each substyle binds its own audit thresholds, craft paradigm, POV mode, and banned failure modes. The forge auto-detects the right substyle from your prompt and genre tag.
Worship Radio
Top admin-published worship songs from the corpus, with audio + extracted standout lines.
Load-bearing primitive
APR
The primitive that mechanically operationalizes SA#24. Every worship lyric the forge produces is gated by this measurement.
Audit primitives · 6 deterministic + 1 Haiku-judged▾
Each runs against every worship lyric the forge produces; the load-bearing primitive is highlighted.
| Code | Name | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| APR | Ambiguous Pronoun Ratio | Berean Test mechanical operationalization | DeterministicSA axis |
| CSR | Congregational Singing Range | Vocal range fit for congregational singing | Deterministic |
| TFI | Theological Fidelity Index | Doctrinal coherence within tradition | Deterministic |
| DGS | Doxological Glorification Score | Worship-direction (God-toward) ratio | Deterministic |
| PRT | Pronoun Register Targeting | Substyle-aware pronoun-mode coherence | Deterministic |
| SAI | Scripture Allusion Index | Biblical-text density | Deterministic |
| BVT | Berean Vetting Test | Haiku-judged 4-category Berean evaluator | Haiku |
Forbidden Archive · 10 failure modes
Each failure mode is cited by name in the forge prompt and flagged by the critic loop with section + reasoning. The full operational definitions live in the Forbidden Archive document.
Ambiguous Pronoun Chorus
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Romance-Worship Bleed
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Doctrine Drift
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Generic Spiritual Vocabulary
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Range Out of Congregation
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Implied Subject
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Tradition Cosplay
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Outsider Inaccessibility
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Sentimentality-Over-Theology
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Scripture Veneer
Flagged by the worship critic loop by canonical name. A song carrying this mode caps at B+ on the SA axis regardless of its 12-metric quality score. Operational definition catalogued in the worship Forbidden Archive — full text shipping in a follow-up build.
Calibrated against 30 verified hits
The audit primitives are calibrated so canonical worship hits score at the S+/S band. Sources include the Rolling Stone 500, Rock Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame, Library of Congress National Recording Registry, and substyle-specific canonical playlists.
Corpus license: CC BY 4.0. Lyrics not reproduced — title + artist + year + structural metadata only.
Forge a worship song
The forge applies the worship substyle profile, banned failure modes, and APR as a pre-output gate. Output isn’t generic AI lyrics — it’s worship lyrics that pass the audit your genre demands.