That would have been a great concert had the crowd not gotten out of hand.
Posted on 03/28/2024 6:11:28 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
Last week an item on Fox News.com caught my attention. It was a “this day in history” article, commemorating the first rock music concert held, on March 21, 1952. It took place in Cleveland, and it ended in chaos. Glenn Gass, a professor emeritus from Indiana University, said, “Right from the start, it was seen as dangerous music. Kids loved it. Parents hated it. Great. What a way for rock ‘n’ roll to get its start.”
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even the earliest 1st-century church hiding in tunnels sang songs.
Beethovan’s Ode to Joy was sublimely and eternally entertaining as well as joyiusly worshipful. They are not mutually exclusive.
The churches in the Southern Hemisphere would have a VERY different take on this.
I’ve seen African and South American churches.
Their worship is quite lively and warm. In the Northern Hemisphere, we tend to be the Chosen Frozen.
There’s a time and a place for everything. My church actually just purchased new hymn books. Song 1 is In Christ Alone. I’ve been traveling a lot and haven’t been to church much since they got them a month or so ago. My wife tells me that it’s a good mix of old and new.
They also have a small band lead singing with many songs broadcast on the screen. Some are good, some very good, some I don’t like. The band plays to be sung along with, leading music, not entertaining us. They don’t deviate with their favorite guitar riffs.
I’m also a long time unrepentant rock and roll aficionado, Chistian and secular. I’ve attended Rock concerts with fellow church members. I like 70’s-90’s Christian rock. Today’s Hillsong crap is just that for the most part.
Does that presume that the African and South American churches are more authentically Christian?
“In the Northern Hemisphere, we tend to be the Chosen Frozen.”
Exactly! My Mom’s church (Methodist) has too much music and back slapping and glad handing for my tastes.
We Missouri Synod Lutherans NEED to be threatened each week that we’re going to Hell if we don’t shape up, LOL!
(Not that we’re ever really up to much to begin with, but still!) ;)
That would have been a great concert had the crowd not gotten out of hand.
You mean psalms.
Todays churches have lost their way regarding “Praise and Worship”..
I can remember the groanings of people back in the late 80’s/90’s toward the “same old hymns and choruses..”. Then came the grunge movement. -which we are stuck with -30 years on.. (U2 guitar/Phil Collins drumming..)
The whole reason for a “praise & worship team” should be to accompany the singing of the congregation. These days, they are wannabe rock stars who overpower everything - as they urge on the congregation to “sing along!..”
There is a DIFFERENCE between songs that edify and actual PRAISE & WORSHIP. Most songs I hear in churches are the former.. songs people ought to listen to during their week which may be to their taste and fortify their faith. But that doesn’t make it Praise and Worship. Churches today completely fail to understand this.
Blacking out the room; using cool rock-show lighting; a 40,000 watt p.a. system in a 400 square foot room…turning it into a rock show isn’t praise and worship. It’s basically a concert.
Praise and Worship are His people - singing TO HIM -together as one. Somewhere along the line, younger generations began considering this to be ‘old hat’, ‘boring’, uncool… And so they mimick the rave parties that they used to have in college with “Christian” themes and call it praise and worship.
Then, justify it because we older folks “just don’t get it..”
It’s very sad. We enter the Lord’s very gates with thanksgiving; we enter His very courtroom and presence with true praise. Those who have been there will never be satisfied to just bop and jam out like we did at concerts as teenagers. It is NOT the same thing.
Then again, I’m not expert and I don’t know everything..
call it whatever you wish, but music has always been a part of the church.
I am sure when instruments were added (most likely in the middle ages) people complained about those harps and pianos ruining church.
> Does that presume that the African and South American
> churches are more authentically Christian?
Not at all!
Neither are they LESS Christian for lively music with a downbeat, dancing, and celebrating.
N’est ce pas?
There are plenty of bible believing churches in this country with all sorts of styles of worship. We are indeed quite fortunate in that regard.
My daughter from that marriage still attends those services but they have metamorphosed into about 1/3rd "light Christian rock concert", complete with electric guitars, drums and keyboard with background visuals and the lyrics projected onto a screen behind them. The remaining 2/3rds was the pastor's sermon in which he wore a headset and microphone and paced back and forth on the stage behind him - and pushed for money.
I think I'll stick with Catholicism.
So, why bring it up?
Some of the most meaningful and moving church services I’ve attended incorporated extended times of complete silence, in prayer. One church I attended during college had a sign above the door of the sanctuary, “Enter in Prayer, no Unnecessary talking.”
> So, why bring it up?
Really?
Did you read the article?
Did you see where lively forms of worship were maligned?
My family in NE Illinois is also LCMS. It’s the only mainline Protestant denomination that is absolute conservative. Unlike the ELCA and the Methodists. BTW, I enjoy your gardening posts.
Paul praised those churches that “weren’t correct” zccord8ng to some at the time, for getting he word out despite having differences of opinions on some matters.
A great many hippest and druggies tu4ned to Christ in the 70’s with outdoor revival meetings that utilized rock and testimonies during breaks. The Holy Spirit worked mightily at that time despite the not so “conventional” worship methods used at the meetings. Many of those ex druggies are still working for God today. My family knows several who have a true heart for God and the word.
Thanks! Join in any time!
We have ONE LCMS church in our area - only has 98 members...all aging out, it seems!
I’m going to join this summer. It’s 30+ miles from me, but will be worth the trip. It took me long enough to find them!
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