Prescriptive Thought—part
4
So,
having multiple services to accommodate the schedules of a very busy
congregation may be very helpful, but splitting up public worship solely on the
basis of music style is unfortunate in many ways. It seems on the surface that dividing into
worship groups will solve all the problems of style of church music. However, it doesn’t. The church must struggle with style and form
in music just like it deals with all the other practical nitty-gritty issues of
Christian living. Dividing congregational
worship only avoids the problems of musical worship.
It is
not the purpose of this discussion to try to tell church musicians exactly
where to draw the line musically speaking.
The greatest problem with church music today is not that various
Christian fellowships don’t agree exactly on what styles of music are best
suited for public worship. The big
problem is that churches are no longer drawing any lines when it comes to music
style. In the midst of these troubled
musical times churches have abdicated. They have given up all responsibility for
sorting out what is proper or improper, appropriate or inappropriate, suitable
or unsuitable and certainly good and bad in church music.
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