Posted on 04/19/2022 12:00:23 PM PDT by MercyFlush
This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. (key change) This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music. This is a joke about Contemporary Christian music.
That's right, just exile us into the cornfield if we don't pretend to like it. We are the problem, after all. It certainly couldn't be the insipid, unsingable, ugly CRAP MUSIC itself causing all the division and discomfort and resentment.
Amen.
I don’t mind repetitive singing if you are singing Biblical words or verses, like Paul Wilbur singing “Kadosh.” It helps that he is a good, strong singer with decent music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMDz1fpHxE
lol, right
Too much of it, though, is like the Dims fussing more about what's wrong with our country than they talk about what we should keep doing right.
True. Here's one I like—it may have some repetition and a key change, but it's very melodic, and the final solo is delivered with great conviction:
He is indeed a good strong singer, backed by trained
musicians. Now imagine it sung by a couple hundred bad, weak voices, under the direction of someone who wants the song to last forever.
I have no problem with repetition itself. That’s an element of art. The elements can be used skillfully or poorly.
Love WTK - they remind me of old Jefferson Airplane but (hopefully) without the drugs.
There are some CCM songs that repeat the same words over and over, but they are rare. Those that think this is prevalent haven’t listened to much CCM. Yeah, the droning, repetitive “Praise & Worship” is worthy of contempt, but that’s not the gist of CCM.
Good one friend!
That is a great tune.
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ooo e ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
Roger Miller was also a master at this nonsense but at least he was funny.
I don’t listen to it. I’m a Bluegrass fan.
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Isn’t everyone?
People drinking coffee in church.
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A few years back, I observed a long time female, adult, member of our Baptist church come in a little late. She was carrying a McDonald’s breakfast meal. Service had already started, she took a seat and proceeded to eat her meal.
The Pastor noticed and interrupted the service to ask sister Marie to please take her meal to the basement where there are tables and chairs.
Sister Marie, not being the sharpest knife in the drawer, say’s “no thanks Pastor, I’m fine right here”. Pastor saw that he was not getting through to her, then plainly told her to take the food down stairs to eat it, then come back and join us in worship.
People drinking coffee in church.
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A few years back, I observed a long time female, adult, member of our Baptist church come in a little late. She was carrying a McDonald’s breakfast meal. Service had already started, she took a seat and proceeded to eat her meal.
The Pastor noticed and interrupted the service to ask sister Marie to please take her meal to the basement where there are tables and chairs.
Sister Marie, not being the sharpest knife in the drawer, say’s “no thanks Pastor, I’m fine right here”. Pastor saw that he was not getting through to her, then plainly told her to take the food down stairs to eat it, then come back and join us in worship.
They’re doing it out of joy and happiness, though. Why would they be doing that if they’re not, if it’s tedious to them?
We’re told that we’re body, soul and spirit, but there’s really no clear explanation on how that’s so. But in Heaven, if “part” of a saint (the soul or spirit) could be doing enjoyable activities — much like, but infinitely better than, the enjoyable activities we have on earth — then another “part” of the saint might at the same time always be before God, praising Him for having all those enjoyable activities to do.
While I have some concerns about it, I also do listen to some of it and find it to be inspirational, enjoyable and sufficiently Biblical.
For secular music, I’m content to listen to it incidentally, like when I’m out shopping in a store, and then to put it on once in a very great while, maybe once every year or two, almost for old times’ sake, to reflect back on the past from my perspective now as a believer, and with a very limited enjoyment of the music, an enjoyment which feels the right size — I get a little out of it as I used to, and then it very quickly becomes shallow and the enjoyment is gone. I feel some connection with that music, and I believe that worldly music will likely be transformed and redeemed in Heaven, and believe connecting with it in that limited way is also good for relating to and having spiritual insight into other people, as music is almost a religion to many. But it doesn’t have the same appeal to me as it once did, and I don’t feel like that’s any loss to me, but to my gain, because God has given me other enjoyable music and activities that are much better, much more truly enjoyable and satisfying. It is possible to get satisfaction with Him. It just can *seem* like He’s trying to take enjoyable things away from us and replace it with what’s unenjoyable.
OMG. She had been a member for a while, and still was clueless about respect and basic etiquette? oy...
Veeeery interestink... and I thought Steve Vai could score.
“Of course. When all the songs start in the key of C or D then you can only change to C or D.”
But if you play guitar and you’re in E or A and D you can do all that cool and mysteriously ethereal droning stuff...
“The problem as I see it is that the musicians like them and think they are “fun” to play.”
The droning jams can be cool if the musicianshop is solid... What’s boring is the I,iv,IV,V chord pattern and slight variants thereof consistantly constant. Drums don’t mind unless forced into doing that resounding Scottish TomTom call-to-battle drum rudiment..
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