To: Corin Stormhands
Music trends will change as cultures and generations change. They always have.
But I wouldn't expect a return to just hymns.
Agree.
There are some good writers out there. i anxiously wait for the day when people realise that music is used to communicate, and musical styles are integral to communicating the message that the lyrics attempt to tell.
Lack of the Holy Spirit the critics tell me? i contend that the Holy Spirit is no more or less attached to modern hymns than He was to 19th Revivalist Hymns, or Gregorian Chants, or Handel's Messiah. God operates as He will, and the musician is obligated to do all things as unto the Lord.
17 posted on
05/16/2005 1:03:49 PM PDT by
Calvinist_Dark_Lord
(I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)
To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
i contend that the Holy Spirit is no more or less attached to modern hymns than He was to 19th Revivalist Hymns, or Gregorian Chants, or Handel's Messiah. Agreed. I once silenced a "hymns in the church only" critic of contemporary music by asking them what type of "hymn" they thought was sung in the upper room...without a pipe organ.
19 posted on
05/16/2005 1:16:53 PM PDT by
Corin Stormhands
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Corin Stormhands
This guys worship music ushers you into the Throne Room!
Eoghan Heaslip
24 posted on
05/16/2005 3:00:13 PM PDT by
bondserv
(Creation sings a song of praise, Declaring the wonders of Your ways †)
To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
Lack of the Holy Spirit the critics tell me? i contend that the Holy Spirit is no more or less attached to modern hymns than He was to 19th Revivalist Hymns, or Gregorian Chants, or Handel's Messiah. God operates as He will, and the musician is obligated to do all things as unto the Lord.
However, much of the spiritual music today, both in my Catholic Church and in the Protestant Churches is banal, profane, and gives more glory to ourselves than to God.
The oldies aren't goodies just because they're oldies. They're goodies because they're good.
To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
Agreed. My daughter and I were laughing the other day because we discovered that we each felt sorry for the other. She worships with chorus's and I worship with hymns (mostly.) We each thought the other's church was missing out on some great worship music!
God looks on the heart, not the outward appearance. She loves Jesus. I love Jesus. He knows it when we sing.
--Marty
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