"To tell you the truth (and this won't be popular), I believe Satan is using music to tear churches apart, and the few people who are willing to stand up and be counted in keeping theological and musical integrity in churches (in many cases) are being punished.
I have several good book references on the subject if you're interested."
I would be interested in those references! It would be good material.
Don
Just got to your post (do you like Wagner by any chance? ;o), and am taking off in a minute, but I'll get you those references (4 good ones, IMO) this afternoon.
Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture, by Marva J. Dawn (a Catholic), published in 1995, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Marva Dawn's sequel to that, A Royal "Waste" of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World, 1999 (Eerdmans).
From the Evangelical Protestant perspective, True Worship: Reclaiming the Wonder and Majesty, by Donald P. Hustad, 1998, Hope Publishing Co.
And more recently (2002, Baker Book House Co.), A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship, by Michael Horton, Reformed theologian and minister.
They are all excellent books on why the exclusively contemporary movement that crosses all denominations is unbiblical and detrimental to true worship, and to the work of Christ's Church in a contemporary world.