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To: Gamecock
I thing that most Calvinists will agree with much that is posted here. IMHO modern Christians want God to be a big buddy, and not God.

Exactly. I got very caught up in the "Praise & Worship" contemporary music movement. Once I started paying closer attention to the words however, I realized how anthropocentric a lot of the music was. While I was leading worship music at my church, I found it increasingly difficult to choose music (and, unfortunately, even hymns from their hymnal) that were appropriate expressions of worship and not echos of some sort of group therapy affirmations.

42 posted on 12/02/2004 8:23:21 AM PST by Frumanchu (I fear the sanctions of the Mediator far above the sanctions of the moderator...)
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To: Frumanchu
I realized how anthropocentric a lot of the music was

Hardly a new malady to afflict Christianity. "I have decided to follow Jesus" isn't exactly contemporary, but most hymnbooks contain it.

Modern praise and worship music runs the gamut, from bordering on the heretical to the inane to the simplistic to the weighty. There are some gems in there; as I sit waiting for my class to begin, "God of Wonders" comes to mind.

44 posted on 12/02/2004 8:33:05 AM PST by jude24 (sola gratia)
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