Thinking Church Music Through
Church
musicians are now in a very heated argument about styles of church music. No one seems to argue in favor of secular
rock music, but there are an increasing number of pastors and church musicians
who do not see much, if anything, wrong with religious rock music in the
church. In many places in the world
today, church attendance is getting smaller, so pastors and ministers of music
are trying to make church attendance attractive to people who are not
Christians. Almost everything
traditional is now being reviewed to make sure that traditional acts of worship
are relating to “worldly” people.
Traditional styles of church music often receive the blame for a lack of
church growth.
When
a particular church is experiencing increased attendance, pastors and ministers
of music naturally look at the style of worship that has been
“successful.” Often church leaders
pattern public worship after “super churches” without thinking through the
results of those major changes in music worship.
Thought for the Day
Christian musicians must be more concerned
about being “faithful” than “successful” when it comes to which styles of music
are or are not admitted to a church’s music repertoire.
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