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As someone who is a musician.... who has played in all sorts of bands over the years... including worship ministry in large church. Let me say this... most people like the music they grew up with. Music they heard from about age 10 to 26 or 27. That's their preference. There is nothing wrong with that... its the norm.

When I was a kid there weren't so many different styles of music. There really wasn't much "contemporary christian" at all. Rock and Roll was still pretty new. Church music was hymns (christian lyrics with theology in them) often put to popular melodies of the time. And there was country gospel music which was honky tonk music with christian lyrics or a good moral.

Its a different world now as far as music goes. But I believe this with all my heart... whatever style of music we sing when we praise God... our worship in our churches... it should be the best we can do. There is no reason why church music should be second rate. For centuries the best music in the world came from Churches or church musicians.

We're to give our best to the Lord. Our best tithes and offering. Our best worship. Our best obedience. Our best music. Our best lives we can give. Our music in worship services should be excellent and presented to God as the best we can do.

...”I believe this with all my heart... whatever style of music we sing when we praise God... our worship in our churches... it should be the best we can do. There is no reason why church music should be second rate”.....

I ‘might’ agree if the object is to lift up Christ among the Worshipers. But this has not been my observation in most of the contemporary services I’ve been to. The Worship “teams” are focused entirely ‘on entertaining before an audiance’ rather than leading the congregation in worship via music and song.

There is a stark difference between those who are focused on their “mission of leading in song worship” and those who are there for their own glory and “entertainment”......and that is always revealed through how they project themselves in their stage presence to the congregation....or lack of in being self-absorbed.

As a “worship team” the work is to raise the hearts of the people from whatever they walked in with to that of “seeing Jesus” among them and worship of Him in song rather than being entertained as so often the case. This is not to say there isn’t a time for such entertainment....many churches have special evenings of entertainment where the music is intended to do that and as well reveal Christ. But what I’ve seen in contemporary churches is mostly entertainment.