Posted on 12/07/2004 12:06:09 PM PST by LouAvul
Yup. When I hear Gospel R&B, it makes me horny.
Since this is being discussed - my husband and I have been going around and around with this - our church is doing an evening service and they take all these beautiful, modern, worship songs, and they crank up the amps, crank up the bass, and then sort of scream the lyrics in what sounds off tempo - I just HATE it. I want them to find their own NEW stuff - not butcher songs I love. I don't even want to go to that service, but my husband thinks we should be there to support the evening effort.
It is bringing people in with multiple piercings, black fingernails and primary colored hair...and if those people are actually hearing a message, than...I'm sure it's a good thing - although I wouldn't be able to understand the words, if I wasn't able to guess which song they were distorting. We have 4 teens, and two of them like it - two of them don't. None of my kids listen to the really hard stuff...and if I can not dicipher the lyrics after a couple times through - we don't play them here.
I am 41 and I prefer a mix of music...I love How great thou art...and every thing Rich Mullins and Keith Green ever sang (that I've heard!)
You're doing a pretty good job of it on this thread and it's only Tuesday night....
The truth is you can't can't seem to comprehend what this debate is about and you clearly can't keep up with the discussion.
Of course if you can cite an example of you state above I would be glad to bring you up to speed.
Looking closer is the key. Unfortunately, I have all to often see it stop with the "this Jesus dude seems pretty hip" and then leave it at that. As a catalyst to conversion I have no problem with it, but we believers need to make the message clear so the Holy Spirit can do it's work. It is not I, but He who saves.
Christian rock done right, is wonderful. Done wrong, it is pathetic.
Christians that the Lord has so prepared, barge right in and plunder the rock instruments back from the now-bound "strong man" (the devil).
Agreed. We don't "save", we just deliver the message ;0)
What is Gospel R&B? Hate to interrupt your fun but you've got your genre's mixed up.
Yes, especially things like this R&B from DC Talk:
"Impress this brother with a life of virtue. The innocence that's spent is gonna hurt you. Safe is the way they say to play. Then again safe isn't safe at all today. So just wait for the mate that's straight from God. Don't have sex 'til you tie the knot."
Highly demonic and "fleshy", isn't it?
I'm 50 and I pretty much like all music. My daughter is just 18 and currently at a Christian college pursing a degree in music. She loves the classic hymns and barely tolerates the more modern Christian music. My middle son, on the other hand, loves Christian rock. Both have their hearts in the right place and use music to worship God. I'm sure God loves to hear them both.
There are many artists out there who do Gospel music in an R&B style.
He was desperate enough to die a messy, butcherous death on filthy wooden poles.
Ooh stop it. I feel the need to commit the Sin of Onan...
Kind of makes most of this discussion pretty damn ludicrous....
So as long as my message is the love of Christ, it doesn't matter if I am screaming in people's faces in the most rude manner imaginable.
WRONG.
We have someone repeatedly commenting on something they are demonstrating they know nothing about, but yet are casting judgment on it. It is, truly, very sad.
No, you are wrong, period. You are commenting on something you know absolutely nothing about. That is DISHONEST.
If by "screaming in people's faces in the most rude manner imaginable" you mean "in a music style they like" then yeah, sure that's ok.
WRONG.
I think you mean, "If I don't like the music, it's The Devil!" right?
Do the classify their Gospel music as "Rhythm and Blues"? I don't think so.
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