Posted on 08/04/2014 8:38:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
…so I assume my little quip was over your head? I mean, if not, your response was astonishingly weak.
Phillips, Craig and Dean. Best in contemporary Christian worship music, imho.
later aread
Yeah, there was an article not long ago that said many members of prominent Christian music acts aren’t even practicing Christians anymore, they just stuck with it for the steady paycheck. Show business is show business, whether you slap the label “Christian” on it or not.
Amazing Grace is about God, seen through the eyes of a slave trader, and praises God for His saving power. I don’t have the problem with it that you and some Catholics do.
Actually, Psalm 23 reads in a similar fashion, and I don’t know if anyone has a problem with that.
Where I have issues are with songs like “Draw Me Close” or “In the Secret”. They aren’t reverent, I call them Prom Date” songs and they have no place in a host of worship.
Of course, if you read Revelation 5 literally, worship in Heaven is not sung but spoken, so this may all be a moot point anyway :)
Bless your day.
Oh, wait . . .
Then there's something wrong with Catholicism.
Just give me Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Elgar, and Stravinsky (all Catholics).
cop out response.
Wow, that Paul guy sure was self-centered, wasn’t he?
Lyrics written in the 1780s by John Newton, a priest in the Church of England. Current music adapted in an American hymnbook during the 1820s. Both pre-date the onset of gospel music in the U.S. during the late 19th century.
To each their own. It's what makes the world go round.
Hmmm. As a 30-year radio announcer, with the last 14 being in Contemporary Christian format, I find articles like this to be highly subjective. (By the way, as I type this my station is playing “Hosannah” by Selah.) Not only have I been on-air for all these years, but I’ve been programming for almost as long. Whenever a listener calls (anywhere) and says, “I don’t like this song!”, or “Why don’t you play more _____”, I always remind my staff that what they’re really saying is, “I want you to play what I like.” I learned a long time ago that just because I don’t like a particular style or sound of music doesn’t mean it’s not good.
Oh, and people get crankier about music as they get older. :)
I really, really wish our church would play some gospel music like the black churches do. That would be a nice change.
However, referencing Mary and her experience with Gabriel, the Holy Spirit and her child Jesus is a beautiful thing. One can only imagine what it was like for her. The wonder of these experiences is central to many Christmas carols, but there is a great difference between telling her story and worshiping her. (Psst - praying to Mary IS worship).
RE: Just give me Mozart,
Mozart? Really now.
I’m sure you will object to such music of his as :
Leck mich im Arsch (a canon in B-flat major). Just try translating that into English.
Or BONA NOX (four-voice canon in A Major )
Or the Latin, DIFFICILE LECTU (now this is a fun song with a lot of double entendres )...
Mozart is a genius, don’t get me wrong. But the man was quite crude.
I think you left out Tchaikovsky but I’m not sure he is Catholic.
The tune is from 1830--when Jackson sat in the White House, Texas and Utah were part of Mexico, and Arkansas and Michigan were not yet states.
You do know Salvation is thru grace, and not laws?
Then why do we have a new covenant (laws)....?
Romans 7:14-25(ESV)
” 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. “
That, by the way, is from Acts 7, written by the Apostle Paul, who endeavored to eliminate selfishness at his conversion.
“Amazing Grace” is the personal testimony of a believer sharing what is available to all of us, namely the Gospel, and the joy of his new found relationship with the Lord. Very effective witness to invite other sinners to the rail with Jesus.
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