Posted on 09/19/2017 6:22:17 PM PDT by hiho hiho
We do - we attend a home church.
The raucous modern music is designed to guilt trip the money to fall out of your pockets.
Not the sermons, the songs. Some are written to stir emotions, not necessarily spiritual introspection.
The newer ones are better by: Gettys, Redman, Balosch, Philips, Craig and Dean are great. The 7/11 songs were bad.(7 words/lines sung 11 times)
“Songs of faith have been replaced by remarkably vapid, thoroughly mundane jesusy ditties.”
Like this guy’s writing if you ask me.
If you don’t like modern worship - don’t go to that service, or don’t go to that church. I like traditional, but can tolerate modern worship. (Our church does both). The main thing to me is Biblical based preaching. Left our family’s long-time church when it strayed from that. Yes it was difficult, but often doing the right thing is.
No, I mean the guilt-inducing, emotionally manipulating sermons. I found them the rule in Southern Baptist churches, getting less so as one moves toward the more liturgical denominations But yes, songs can be like that, too.
The reason I (we) need rest is my spouse and I are both employed there. We do too much other stuff which has nothing to do with our supposed gifts. Gifts are ignored if those in charge do not respect those God given attributes.
We are burned out, but need the $$$.
Let me get this staright. The author thinks sermons should be based on a liturgical calendar? Wow.
No, a reverent, holy place...
There were those who infiltrated to co-opt the church.
And some congregations haven’t taken it lightly.
In Houston there was a battle within a Presbyterian church to break away from the Leftist overrun CPUSA, but there was a vote and the nationalist church pwns the real estate.
You can “leave” but they keep the wealth. And the messaging.
Same as with corporations, they’ve infiltrated them and are willing to see them collapse.
So much of what “was” is just a shell/husk these days. Malls, newspapers, news broadcasts. Political leadership. Higher learning.
A lot of my family attends a church where a stage has replaced the altar and a giant screen has replaced the hymnal. It’s like they go to church to be entertained rather for worship. I prefer a small, traditional church.
Find another Church. There are many to suit your needs. Don’t get all the bluster.
Unfortunately, you can’t even post this article without somebody coming along trying to flame you. Lots of venom on these forums.
“Songs of faith have been replaced by remarkably vapid, thoroughly mundane jesusy ditties.”
Very true. Well said.
Bump
I’m a Catholic convert (and Lord knows contemporary Catholic worship is mostly ghastly), but I always appreciated the old style Protestant hymns. This letter (assuming it is written by a Protestant) makes me wonder if Protestants even sing the old hymns anymore?
I can relate to this article.
We left a larger church (1500 on Sundays) where we attended 18 years for a smaller church (400 on Sundays). The size of the church wasn’t the issue, but the “worship” service had become a problem.
When we first began attending our old church we had an orchestra and choir and decent Bible teaching.
Then in a drive to become “relevant” to the community the choir and orchestra disappeared and we got a loud rock band with mood lighting followed by a 20 minute “talk” sometimes without even using the Bible. The relevancy brought in new people, but others left frustrated with how the “worship” service had become about the 45 minute rock concert with a manic drummer and guitarists showing their skills by ripping Led Zeppelin runs in the middle of a “worship” song.
We also finally left. It took us a while to find our current church. It also meant sitting out of church for while until we found one that concentrated on scripture. It is a smaller church without a glitzy rock band or mind-numbing repetitive phrases to sing.
Our new pastor teaches for a solid hour in exegesis format. Our songs are a mixture of hymns and praise songs that incorporate Bible truths.
The new church is not glitzy and not on TV but our pastor delivers solid biblical teaching twice a week.
What a refreshment to our souls this has been.
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