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Worship · SubstyleSA#24 · APR

Contemporary Anthem

Hillsong / Bethel / Elevation territory. Big stadium production over modern worship narrative. Chorus repeats lift on open vowels.

Quick facts

Tempo band
70-130 BPM
Craft paradigm
name-first
POV mode
first-person
Calibration anchors
Hillsong WorshipBethel MusicElevation Worship

Parent arc · SA#24

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.

The load-bearing primitive is APR — applied to every worship lyric the forge produces, including Contemporary Anthem.

Forbidden Archive · 10 failure modes

Contemporary Anthem inherits the full Worship Forbidden Archive. The critic loop flags any of these by canonical name.

Ambiguous Pronoun Chorus
Romance-Worship Bleed
Doctrine Drift
Generic Spiritual Vocabulary
Range Out of Congregation
Implied Subject
Tradition Cosplay
Outsider Inaccessibility
Sentimentality-Over-Theology
Scripture Veneer

Other Worship substyles

Forge a Contemporary Anthem song

The forge applies the worship substyle profile for Contemporary Anthem, banned failure modes, and APR as a pre-output gate.