tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post1401652999784816979..comments2023-10-19T10:21:32.190-05:00Comments on In Other Words: Doctrine, Theology, and a School Choir? (Feminist Music in Church)Paul Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00974655628067266530noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-72282334127060070942010-03-16T12:36:43.502-05:002010-03-16T12:36:43.502-05:00The problem with that is you're using a broad ...The problem with that is you're using a broad brush. Not all modern Christian music is based on feelings, much of it is based on scripture. And not a feminized version of scripture. If you like the sacred music of hundreds of years ago that's fine...but that doesn't speak to some people. And I'm sure I could look through some of the hymnals I have here and find some older songs filled with feel good meism. <br /><br />I find it sad that you want to conform God and His people to your definition of what is godly. <br /><br />Perhaps you should test a pipe organ in a cathedral sometime, and see how many decibels that thing is cranking out...I bet you'll be surprised.Drew_ALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00842505677016558657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-36873069190601546582010-03-16T08:45:25.169-05:002010-03-16T08:45:25.169-05:00CID_0687,
The issue I was discussing in this blog...CID_0687,<br /><br />The issue I was discussing in this blog is inappropriate material that has been used in churches. A friend used a noise meter from work to measure volume of a church sound system, and learned it violated OSHA's maximum noise levels for work sites. How can you hear the sermon after 30-35 minutes of 90 or 100 decibel rock music, often with just a beat and little, if any, message?<br /><br />As for content in music, we of the blog (all nine of us) are versed in classical music, especially sacred music. Some have choral singing experience.<br /><br />In the eulogy for Mr. Proulx in this blog, he warned about church music of modern times. Similar warnings have come from Charles Colson and John MacArthur. Mr. MacArthur noted a change in church music came about 150 years ago from teaching God's Word to based on other things, and modern music is all feelings-based, similar to the way of our government. The false teachings of Life Enhancement Centres inflitrates modern church music as the writers lead worship at such places (see Lakewood).<br /><br />I played varsity baseball for a small parochial school as a sixth-grader, and we had to learn fundamentals. In the pre-gospel music era, sacred church music taught fundamentals in song. Now they only teach feelings, similar to what is taught in schools for subjects everywhere today. If you're saying a version of Psalm 23with feminist theology that makes God feminine is acceptable as Concordia did recently, then that's trouble. That was not taught in second grade.Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366544608847776006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-2685509175723598122010-03-16T03:06:06.281-05:002010-03-16T03:06:06.281-05:00Hey Bobby, please point me to scripture that says ...Hey Bobby, please point me to scripture that says we're suppose to meet in Cathedrals and only sing 200 year old hymns. <br /><br />Thanks in advance.Drew_ALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00842505677016558657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-20611616781679229332010-03-08T08:38:40.593-06:002010-03-08T08:38:40.593-06:00The worst part, Cathy, is too many sanctuaries hav...The worst part, Cathy, is too many sanctuaries have been replaced by theatre stages. While on a business trip last week, I noted the chain car dealer had moved its dealership 20 miles east and shut down its "assigned" region, and its building was sold to the corrupt Life Enhancement Centre that claims to be a church. This is the same LEC that built its own sanctuary in 2001, sold it in 2008, and began meeting in an old supermarket building next door to another church. This LEC is establishing a second branch in that city 20 miles from its own home base at the former car dealership.<br /><br />They don't even teach God's Word in the building, and the music is excessively loud. At times you might confuse it for a mosh pit.<br /><br />Today's generation who only knows feelings doesn't understand anything except entertainment replacing a study of the Holy Word of God.Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366544608847776006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9284635.post-89094904739543783832010-02-28T16:23:43.679-06:002010-02-28T16:23:43.679-06:00We need to reclaim our sanctuaries from secular ev...We need to reclaim our sanctuaries from secular events taking place in them. We need reminders that these are CONSECRATED spaces; not concert halls.Cathy_of_Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795566831031491371noreply@blogger.com