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To: jude24
Is this a purely theoretical question, or something you've actually run into?

Sounds like the pastor isn't actually running the worship service. Maybe there's a "worship team" that's doing it's own thing during the allotted time.

Would I go back? At one time, yes. Now, I'd be inclined to keep looking.

17 posted on 09/20/2008 7:34:27 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("I've studied bible prophecy 30 years" usually means "I have everything Hal Lindsay ever wrote.")
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To: Lee N. Field; Gamecock; xzins; P-Marlowe
Is this a purely theoretical question, or something you've actually run into?

Oh, it was very real.

I moved to a new area, and my fiancee and I decided to go church hunting. (I still am.) Anyway, we checked out this one - and at first, we loved it. Then came that song. I told my fiancee I wasn't putting up with that, and so emailed the pastor. He said he'd talk to the worship leader. Two or three weeks later, the song popped up again. I didn't walk out of the service, but I didn't ever come back.

Before I even raised the issue, I emailed the lyrics to some old college buddies, and they agreed that I was not over-analyzing them. They're pretty inappropriate.

Musical style isn't a defining criteria in my church hunt; I don't much care if a church sings all from the Trinity Hymnal or if they sing all Chris Tomlin choruses. But I will not put up with churches that have us sing songs about Jesus that my fiancee couldn't say to me in public without blushing.

All I could think of during that song was the "South Park" about Christian Rock. (Warning: it's South Park - and therefore pretty off-color, but also pretty good satire.)

20 posted on 09/20/2008 9:31:57 AM PDT by jude24
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