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.
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.
Psalm 150
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Chronicles 15
16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
18 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy.
26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
We visited a church that was so loud that it caused me to be disoriented so much that I had a hard time driving home and staying on the road. My wife asked if I wanted her to drive. Fortunately it was less than a mile and we got home safely.
My Latin High Mass is a lot different from that.
I view it as people wanting God AND the world.
We have a time of prayer before every service. Some soft intrumental music doesn’t seem to bother anybody. But when the sound guy plays a louder newer hymn with a vocalist, the ability to focus on prayer isn’t as easy. Thankfully those songs are not the norm.
And I’ve viewed online some of these gospel vocalists that try to warble a half dozen notes into one syllable just like the pop entertainers....., just pathetic.
Loud music in church? Wow the people there must sing very very very loudly
Unless of course the church is using instrumental music. Which of course is unscriptural.
(Church of Christ Snark)
Read Revelation. It speaks of multitudes that no one could number. Trumpets, heavenly hosts etc…. All praising the Lord. It is gonna be loud there. Use this time to get used to it. :)