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.
I’m disabled and can’t sit long, wear twin hearing aids that are not that adjustable. I’d not miss church at all. I can put on music I like and listen to it and read my Bible and be quiet happy.
My late husband played keyboard for our small church, he, the preacher and 1 guitar rhythm, preacher’s wife played the piano all sang. They transformed every song into more modern tempos. And that little church grew. For your enjoyment. When the music is right the Holy Spirit falls. That is another issue with churches today, they don’t think the Holy Spirit still falls nor can people still be blessed with speaking in tongues. They give Him lip service. He to has to be invited into your heart, just as Christ has to be.
The Great Speckled Bird, as it should be played. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KtUuQLYJs
Glory Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbr-dfwanU