Posted on 02/21/2022 10:53:33 AM PST by MNDude
Last week, I was visiting with my step mother and were discussing Covid and it's impact on life.
My step mom said that after the Covid shut down, that 30% attendance has dropped 30% at her church , although there is no live streaming any more.
She said that they used to have two services--one for the old and one for the young, but now they have merged them into a single service.
Apparently the young people desire LOUD music, so the church's way of accommodating the older people is to hand out ear plugs.
I did attend this church one time a while ago, and the music really was near rock concert level in decibels.
Is loud music really this important to that many people? Can anyone here relate?
Yes. You want to keep the youngsters away from the sound booth.
“You’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making Rock and Roll worse.” - Hank Hill
When they become “older people” they won’t need ear plugs, because they will all be deaf by the time they’re forty.
Worship services seem to be converting into entertainment services.
In addition, if the music is so loud, what is the point of singing? Just increase the volume.
There is also health considerations, prolonged exposure to load noise leads to hearing loss.
Yes it’s rock-style, repetitive, and loud . . . it’s called 24/7 music: 24 times they repeat 7 words
We had to leave my great-niece’s baptismal service (at Andy Stanley’s church) because it was so loud. The Vegas-style floor show on the stage was louder than any rock concert I’d attended in the ‘70s. After a person was baptized and came out of the water, the congregation screamed, blew loud air horns, and did those party things that that unfurl and make noise when you blow into them. It was advertised as a “Baptism Bash”. What a travesty.
I’m used to hearing a few very soft “Amens” and the organ quietly playing, “Jesus Paid It All” or similar.
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music - Geoff Moore and the Distance
Im a musician, and suffer partial deafness ( or so my wife tells me) from playing.
That said, some churches are too loud.
The “church” has completely lost sight of what “Praise and Worship” is supposed to be.
The musicians and worship leader/singers are SUPPOSED simply be an extension cord, if you will, - connecting the congregation to the power source. Leading songs for ALL to sing along - to GOD.
Today, I find they are struggling musicians looking for an easy stage on which to PERFORM. They aren’t worshipping at all; they perform.
70 here.
Born from above in 1973.
LOVE loud worship.
In all seriousness, the repetition is largely meant for the newbies. Churches have had some criticism over the years of people deciding to attend church, only to be unfamiliar with the songs while the regular attendees were expressive in their singing. Even with a hymnal (which a lot of people have trouble reading) it can be tough for someone visiting church. People visiting felt like they were on the outside looking in.
My wife and I are in our 60s and we like a mix of traditional hymns and modern Christian worship songs. We’d much rather worship our Lord with instruments similar to the secular music we listen to. As a kid, the Catholic organ music and funeral dirge hymns (think Faith of Our Fathers) made the concept of “worship” unintelligible to me. The first time we went to Andy’s church (over 20 years ago) was the first time I felt like I was worshipping God in a style of music that made me want to sing with joy for all He’s done for me. As an aside, we no longer go to Andy’s churches - he has reduced Scripture it seems to a very small part of his messages and it’s very disappointing.
But what I always tell fellow Believers - if you don’t LOVE the church you attend, FIND ANOTHER ONE!
I wish churches sang again. I have been attending different churches and I am dismayed that choirs are gone, at least where I’ve been. Instead, listening to someone else sing is now the norm, with a guitar strumming. If you’d like to try and sing along to a song you don’t know, they put the words on the wall.
In talking to ministers, the problem is that a significant portion of the congregation is still frightened and likely to stay home if pushed towards normal.
If you know the music is so loud that you have to hand out ear plugs, then it’s too loud.
If someone wants loud worship music, they can crank it up at home. Otherwise, don’t destroy someone’s hearing of the message of the music by cranking it up.
Music should enhance the words, not crush them.
“You’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making Rock and Roll worse.” - Hank Hill”
Hahaha l.yoo perfect.
We call it “7-11”.
I thought that was the Salvation Army back about 150 years ago when they were accused of using “Common” tunes for music.
“Why should the Devil have the best music?”
We have come a long way from St Paul’s admonition “Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Back in 1966-1969 I was in the USAF working on B-52 bombers. When we ran the engines at full throttle for tests our whole body would vibrate. When the engines were shut down we still vibrated for hours.
Today’s loud music seems to want you to vibrate from the music.
That is why I have never listened to loud rock music and will leave when it is played. I do not care for the vibrations.
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