I wonder why it is that you refuse to post the full content from what is obviously you own blog?
Apparently just the Catholics.
The only music more offensive than Christian Rock music is RAP music — and that is really, really bad.
The old message was that all we are beggars and all we have to offer to God is our pride, our deceit, and our sin.
The new message is that God is lucky because we have so much love to offer him.
He is now considered our equal and our peer. The mention of any sin in a contemporary worship song is out of the question.
Took a look at the example. Talk about “too much.” SLOPPY WET kiss? Heart turned VIOLENTLY?
It’s perfectly possible to write movingly about holy passion without visiting the devil’s gutter with the connotations.
Komm in mein Herzenshaus,
Herr Jesu, mein Verlangen!
Treib Welt und Satan aus
Und laß dein Bild in mir erneuert prangen!
Weg, schnöder Sündengraus!
(Come into my heart's house,
Lord Jesus, my desire!
Drive the world and Satan out
and let your image, shine forth renewed in me!
Away, contemptible horror of sin!)
From Bach's Cantata #80, Ein Feste Burg, You can hear it here. About 300 years old; as classical music arias go, it's as close to a romantic-sounding love song as it gets.
Just as bad seeing people come to His house carrying coffee cups, wearing shorts, t-shorts with skulls or NoTW gothic crap, flip flops, tatted up, tight dresses, and wearing a ball cap in the sanctuary.
anyone else feel a bit awkward by this phenomenon?
Perhaps because we have become so worldly that even in church we automatically think of love as being eros rather then agape, philia, or storge?
We are losing something precious and very few seem to take notice.
Someone on this thread already pointed out that all church music was “contemporary” at one time. Some of the songs today will last, most others will not - but, that is true of most hymns/songs of any age in the past.
I don’t mind the style of the music so much as I do the theological content. If the lyrics have sound Christian doctrine, great. There has been a more recent resurgence of doctrinally sound and poetically pleasing song/hymn texts using contemporary sounds:
“Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery” (Matt Boswell)
“In Christ Alone” (Julian Getty and Stuart Townend)
for example. Check them out on youtube.
Silent Night was rejected at first because it was in German not Latin and accompanied by a guitar not an organ. Amazing Grace was rejected by some because it was put to the tune of a drinking song.
I love many of the old hymns; I like David Crowder and even some Christian rap. The message matters most.
OP has been a member since October and does nothing but post links to his own blog site.
He does not participate in any discussion elsewhere, or even on the threads he starts.
Waste of bandwidth.
Just sayin’.
Mongolian rap with traditional instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el93MIxAf-c
Mongolian gangsta rap (in which the Mongolian rapper, Gee, mocks American rappers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8joiH8KEuc
A HUGE part of the reason I can’t stand most contemporary “Christian” music. It’s all a bunch of mush and it doesn’t combine your heart, soul, and your head. Worship should combine all of you, not just your feeeeeeelings.