Over the years, Svetlana and I have found ourselves getting our eyes off ourselves, and what we want and focusing more on what is God doing in the community. We don’t always like the worship style, but the words of the songs are biblically based and not just love songs to Jesus, we have to remember it’s not about us. We love where we gather and worship and those that gather with us.
Thoroughly enjoyed this podcast and the question asked. You both dealt with this topic in a loving, straightforward and truthful manner. This topic, worship music in the church gathering, can often be a divisive element that the Enemy of our souls would love to exploit. Thank you for striving to keep a wonderful balance of 'singability' and 'musical instrument excellence'.
It sounded like an interesting subject, but I'm guessing you're not talking about actual hymns. Too bad. With the mention of "only" three musicians for the substandard version, and hiring the best musicians in town for the good one, I figured you were talking about those songs without verses that have to be sung over and over and over and over, and over again, then sung some more, over and over and over and over, then over and over and over some more (by this time, everyone who is REALLY SANCTIFIED should be conforming and waving their hands around in the air, right?) then over and over and over some more, then a few more times, until ......? God feels they're ready to receive the professionally choregraphed message? If the intent is to entertain those who need to be entertained and drive away those who are serious about worship, what difference does it make which song is chosen since they're all the same after the first couple of dozen rounds? I was once doing some work for a guy I had to listen talk on the phone for an hour talking about some woman in church who couldn't be Christian because she "sat on her hands" the whole time. (Okay, maybe it wasn't an hour, maybe it was 10 or 15 minutes, but like the "music" I've sat through in too many churches, it certainly felt like an hour.) I wish I knew then what I know now so I could have advised him - that guy's church obviously needed to fire their choregrapher and special effects people and hire the best they could find. Only when everyone looks like everyone else can the Gospel be relevant.
Over the years, Svetlana and I have found ourselves getting our eyes off ourselves, and what we want and focusing more on what is God doing in the community. We don’t always like the worship style, but the words of the songs are biblically based and not just love songs to Jesus, we have to remember it’s not about us. We love where we gather and worship and those that gather with us.
Thoroughly enjoyed this podcast and the question asked. You both dealt with this topic in a loving, straightforward and truthful manner. This topic, worship music in the church gathering, can often be a divisive element that the Enemy of our souls would love to exploit. Thank you for striving to keep a wonderful balance of 'singability' and 'musical instrument excellence'.
It sounded like an interesting subject, but I'm guessing you're not talking about actual hymns. Too bad.
With the mention of "only" three musicians for the substandard version, and hiring the best musicians in town for the good one, I figured you were talking about those songs without verses that have to be sung over and over and over and over, and over again, then sung some more, over and over and over and over, then over and over and over some more (by this time, everyone who is REALLY SANCTIFIED should be conforming and waving their hands around in the air, right?) then over and over and over some more, then a few more times, until ......? God feels they're ready to receive the professionally choregraphed message?
If the intent is to entertain those who need to be entertained and drive away those who are serious about worship, what difference does it make which song is chosen since they're all the same after the first couple of dozen rounds?
I was once doing some work for a guy I had to listen talk on the phone for an hour talking about some woman in church who couldn't be Christian because she "sat on her hands" the whole time. (Okay, maybe it wasn't an hour, maybe it was 10 or 15 minutes, but like the "music" I've sat through in too many churches, it certainly felt like an hour.) I wish I knew then what I know now so I could have advised him - that guy's church obviously needed to fire their choregrapher and special effects people and hire the best they could find. Only when everyone looks like everyone else can the Gospel be relevant.