Wordly music or Christian Lyrics?

Look here...I was working yesterday from 7am to 7pm got off, ate, went to bed, got up at 5:30am this morning, got to work at 7am and am working to 3pm. So I was busy yesterday. God has blessed me with a job and I would like to keep it for a while. You know patience is a fruit of the Spirit.

 

Oh yeah. BTW I won't use wikipedia. I will try to find a credible source, unlike some people in this forum.

 

I am not busy during the day, but I cannot look things like this up on my work computer because I am a subcontracted employee. I was saying that I was busy when I got off of work. If you want to be smart why don't you go somewhere else and post on someone elses forum.

 

There you go twisting my words again. No....I am saying that I have the same personal preference that God has.

 

What is up with the childish personal attack? I stopped attacking you all personally and now because I attack your music you attack me? What in the world?

I am a preacher thank you very much. Called to preach in 1996. I am God's spokesperson. Not in a new kind of way....but in preaching the Bible.

 

I am not against drums personally...but I would not have them used in a church service because they could be a stumbling block to others.

Here is a link to a song that I like. Good message and not played so fast the you cannot make out the words. Also, the music doesn't over-power the words. The music help communicate the words in a way that I believe God would be pleased. However, the disclaimer is that I would not use it in a church service with the drums because it might hinder someone else from listening to its message. If I or any one of the people in my church were to sing this song we would try to find the music without the drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_X_g5YU90

This song is called One Holy Lamb. The beat is not that fast but you can hear the drums in there.

 

Taken from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=r&p=17

rock 'n' roll
noun ref. to a specific style of popular music is attested from 1954, from rock (v.2) + roll (v.). The verbal phrase had been a Black Eng. euphemism for "sexual intercourse," used in popular dance music lyrics and song titles since at least the 1934s. Shortened form rock first attested 1957.


From www.dictionary.reference.com
rock ''n'' roll

noun ref. to a specific style of popular music is attested from 1954, from rock(v.2) + roll(v.). The verbal phrase had been a Black Eng. euphemism for "sexual intercourse," used in popular dance music lyrics and song titles since at least the 1934s. Shortened form rock first attested 1957.


From http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1485091/rock-and-roll

William (“Hoss”) Allen of WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee—who created rock-and-roll radio by playing hard-driving rhythm-and-blues and raunchy blues records that introduced white suburban teenagers to a culture that sounded more exotic, thrilling, and illicit than anything they had ever known. In 1954 that sound coalesced around an image: that of a handsome white singer, Elvis Presley, who sounded like a black man.
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This emerging rock-and-roll culture brought a wave of condemnations from religious leaders, government officials, and parents’ groups, who branded it the “devil’s music.”

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I cannot find where it originated in the back seat of a car....however, it was condemed by parents, government, and religion because it stood for illicit behavior.

 

Also....somebody earlier wrote and said that we are to sing a new song. The person that posted this was talking about the new song meaning (modern like rock). However, if you read this verse in its context it is speaking about a new song that God puts in your heart after Salvation. This new song means that you have new desires because you are made new.

Again we come full circle: After Salvation God gives you a new life. We are to put away the things that appeal to the flesh. Rock music appeals to the flesh.

 

I don't call this rock. Also, when I said "I believe" I was saying this according to the principles that I have found in the Scriptures. However, I am not saying that I would use this in a church service. This is the area of music that I am talking about: church service music. I am not talking about music in my personal life or in the life of anyone else.

 

I like it how when you refer to God you use a lower case letter. Thanks for proving my point. Rock music with Christian lyrics brings about a lack of reverence toward God and toward His name.