Posted on 05/20/2015 11:52:50 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
And fog machines. Makes me nuts - I occasionally sit in with our praise band. There’s just no justification for colored lights and fog in a worship service. The answer I always get is, “Different things bring different people into an attitude of worship.” Seems to me I don’t have to - in fact, can’t - force the Holy Spirit, He shows up when He’s ready.
"not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?"
Good Lord, did Dana Carvey’s little church lady character write this crap?
That may be one reason.
Very well said. We have become a nation that hates accoutability.
Have you been to churches lately? If you had, it would be clear that Jesus has no place to lie his head in these churches....
I attend a Lutheran Missouri Synod church. We started a contemporary service about 5 years ago and it’s still going strong. Our late service is traditional. The sermons are the same for both but the music and style of worship are very different. I get the feeling sometimes that they think us traditional types are not getting with the times, but I hate syrupy, contemporary music heavy on drums and electric guitars. I want a hymn written 600 or 800 years ago (or more) with a message that is just as bright and powerful now as it was then. Give me more tradition, not less.
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Phooey. How about some hymns I can sing?
What happened to Onward Christian Soldiers? The beautiful Bach hymns?
Maybe just a bit more Divine mysticism?
Yes, divine mystery. I can’t sense that with rock ‘n’ roll music.
Yes, every week. I’ve been to churches described in this article that were bland and boring and also amazing where you could feel the Spirit moving without a doubt.
This clown can keep his solemn silences, hymnals, and pipe organs. I like the church I go to, complete with its sinful lights and evil guitars.
Stat crux dum volvitur orbis - “The Cross is steady while the world is turning.” The central act of history is Christ’s redemption of man on the Cross. While all merely human affairs have their ebbs and flows — the rising and falling of nations and empires, war and peace, triumph and tragedy — the great reality of the Cross remains constant and will root us in eternity. This is what it’s all about. It’s not about pandering to morons by being hip or yielding to the will-o’-the-wisp fads and fallacies of the moment.
You are still preoccupied with the music and not the message preached.
Don’t tell me that nonsense is making it’s way into mainstream churches
Are you assuming the two are linked?
The point of the article is to call out the social gospel preachers who are not being salt and light to the world. Syrupy sweet like Joel Osteen, a form of godliness, but denying the power...
Which is why the article starts out with its ridiculousness of criticizing anything but Gregorian chants and long silences. Thus the author’s premise starts off with him rolling his eyes at worship that’s not straight out of the 1600s, and, ironically, bores me to tears immediately.
Church is boring compared to that big screen TV with surround sound. It’s a matter of what people want in their eyes and ears.
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