Putting Your Church’s Music Philosophy in Writing—part 4

Putting Your Church’s Music Philosophy in Writing—part 4

            This series of blog posts has been quoting portions of various churches music philosophies that I consider to be excellent.  Today I am recommending a very thorough and excellent church music philosophy presented by Calvary Baptist Church in Quincy Michigan.   As a matter of fact it is written so well that I hesitate to quote a small portion lest the reader should miss reading this wonderful writing about the nature, value and meaning of church music.  However, I will quote a tiny portion of this church music philosophy just to give you a taste of this series of systematic statements:

            “Many churches try to avoid the division and collisions by having two, three or more services catering to the tastes, especially the musical tastes, of the various generations. Some churches have separate services for the Builders (WW II generation) the Baby Boomers (post WW II generation) the Generation Xer’s, and the Net-gen’rs (The Internet Generation)- all of whom have unique musical tastes and cannot seem to relate to or worship to the music of the other generations. Churches that have not gone to separate services have tried to have “blended” services that incorporate something for everyone musically. However, even in this blended worship atmosphere there is some sanctified “teeth grinding” going on.

            Some have come to believe that the music used is key to real worship taking place. The seeker sensitive church philosophy is very dependent upon the music used to get those worship feelings up and running on Sunday morning. Many worship “experts” freely admit this. They will advise up and coming worship leaders to use certain upbeat numbers to kick start the service and get the energy up. Then, to maintain that mood they advise them to use certain other pieces that have a certain tempo, volume and key… In this writer’s opinion, no single issue has polarized, divided and sometimes destroyed congregations more than the music used during worship services.”  http://cbcquincy.com/about/where-we-stand/on-music/