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bzirk -> RE: Do we care too much about music? (3/21/2008 9:43:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: tafkam
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I realy thought every one understood the difference between "dancing in the Lord",and keeping time to a beat."Dancing in the Lord" is not at all they we humans see it
Well, since the Lord created music, and keeping time (i.e. "beat") is a part of music, I'm hard pressed to find where "keeping the beat" would be at odds with "dancing to the Lord".
If one does not keep a beat, be it in performing music or dancing to it, then all you have is chaos. The Scripture tells us to do everything decently and in an orderly fashion.
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And it's impossible to explain it to those who don't understand it.
I was really hoping you wouldn't fall back on that tired argument in yet another music thread, yustme. Because it conveniently gets you out of having to explain your views.
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What's interesting is that I don't recall in scripture that encouragment to be in continual search of circumstances that create a good feeling is the way to build faith. If it is, then then the Apostle Paul, James and a few others had it all wrong.
Nobody's arguing in favor of a feel good form of worship to the exclusion of all else. We need to feel convicted, and angry, and unworthy, and a myriad of other elements of our Christian walk.
However, music is great for conveying or illustrating or augmenting any area you care to name, and for me is just as important a part of worship as the sermon, and sometimes moreso....
Perhaps no one in this thread is arguing for a feel good form of worship to the exclusion or practically to the exclusion of other things, but there are those who do this, and that's what the topic article was talking about and what this thread is about.
IMO (and it's just my opinion), several are missing the point of the thread. It seemed at one point to devolve into a discussion of style and then into a discussion of whether or not music is important. The topic article was not taking issue with a style, and he was not saying music was not important. He is simply saying that too much is focused on style issues and feel good issues and how those two relate. Obviously, I agree. But none of that means that music is unimportant or that people can't be emotional in a worship service. What he's talking about is their focus, and I have definitely seen people who get their knickers in a twist if the service "wasn't anointed" but what they really didn't like was the quality of music. That was their focus above all else.
Coming from an extensive music background myself and having numerous relatives who are or were professional musicians of several decades, and having come from a very large church that had first rate music (and often had professional Christian musicians performing), I like a certain level of quality (read that: my taste in music is pretty discriminating; no question about that). But I also realize that I won't necessarily have that in a small church in the boonies. However, even if the music in this small church is not the quality I'm accustom to as a musician and someone who has grown up with musicians (in church and out of church), that doesn't mean that the worship service is less anointed than the ones I was exposed to every Sunday in my old church. Sadly, there are sometimes people who attend our church and bemoan how much we don't have 'cause we don't have the really great musical performances (or a steady diet of them). That is sad to me that this much focus is on that. But hey, there are others who do this with teaching. There are those people who miss out on a great church body because we don't have someone of Chuck Swindoll's caliber teaching each Sunday. Great as the people are in our church, we just don't have a Chuck Swindoll. But it's still great to be here and God is at work.
Frankly, I think a lot of us are spoiled.
None of what I said should preclude someone from striving for a great performance of music during worship nor should it preclude someone from being emotional in a church service.
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