All Bible based churches will have that choice to make. Every true preacher of the Word is effected. They can stop marrying and burying people. That will be their only option left.
The 501C3 will be the down fall of even mega churches. It ties a preachers hands to PC bilge.
Most PC churches only preach Love, Peace, GIVE till it hurts. Been in quite a few of those.
We no longer see the preaching of Revelations and the End Times. We do see every thing is geared to the 30 and under. Nothing for Seniors. Those praise hymns are a hypnotic chant, not a true song of praise like the Old Rugged Cross, or Amazing Grace. Only thing wrong with the old songs is they need to be played at a faster tempo, add some C & W or Blue Grass sound and you made them new again. Those songs had real meaning.
Praise hymns don’t cut the mustard. Why should my old hurting back and joints try to stand a hr trying to sing what was meant to be spoken, not set to music. And if you aren’t preaching the FULL WORD, I don’t want to go to your church anyway.
Agreed. 100% agreed.
What I’d like to see sometime is new songs that actually preach the Word instead of lyrics that can be replaced with the titles of soap operas without changing the meaning. But until that happens, if it ever does, the batch of hymns that we have are actually good and many of them have very catchy tunes. When played with joy, I find myself eagerly belting them out at the same intensity that I sing along with ‘secular’ music.
But unfortunately, many churches play them at the same tempo and the same excitement as musak. And no matter how much I try to focus on the fact that these songs are here to both worship God and to teach us, I find myself drifting off to sleep.
The 501C status acts as a shield also. Lose that, and the State will move against you full force.