Cory Asbury is back in theology discourse again — this time because of a typo.
Asbury’s new song is called “Outsing the Angels,” and it’s his first worship song in nearly six years. But for a brief time on Apple Music, the title briefly appeared as “Ousting the Angels,” which made it sound less like a worship song about God and more like an attempted coup in heaven.
The typo showed up on both Apple Music and Shazam, which is owned by Apple, when the song dropped on Friday. One commenter on Asbury’s Facebook release post wrote that the song “was called ‘Ousting’ on Apple Music until this morning.”
Naturally, Christian internet reacted normally. After a screenshot of the typo made the rounds, people started questioning the title and Asbury’s theology. And after days of dealing with his comment section and DMs, Asbury posted a video on Instagram clarifying that he was not, in fact, trying to remove angels from heaven.
“Y’all, I finally got my life right. I’m walking the straight and narrow. I released a worship song, and one typo tries to derail the whole thing, and now I’m a heretic again,” Asbury said. “I am not ousting the angels. I’m trying to outsing them. One letter difference, massive theological repercussions.”
According to Asbury, commenters immediately started asking for biblical support for “kicking the angels out of heaven,” while others began quoting Revelation passages at him.
“One dude actually DM’d me a chart, an Excel spreadsheet,” he said.
Asbury also referenced the obvious elephant in the room: this isn’t the first time one of his songs has been accused of theological problems.
Back in 2018, his hit “Reckless Love” sparked a massive debate among Christians who argued God’s love shouldn’t be described as “reckless.” The discourse dragged on for months and somehow turned a worship chorus into a full-blown seminary argument.
“I did not survive the ‘Reckless Love’ discourse just to be accused of staging a heavenly coup,” Asbury joked.
