Featured Singing Acapulco

There's just not enough money to get the whole congregation there.

A cappella? Once in a while we'll sing a single verse of a song that way for emphasis.

But I've heard our congregation sing and even the angels cringe.

Rob

 

Its boring

 

Been with Primitive Baptists singing a cappella 34 years and love it and look forward to the song service always. Visiting other orders in the past, an organ or piano accompanying the singing is now, well, irritating, for lack of a better word.

 

With practice they would improve immensely. Besides, we're to make a JOYFUL NOISE, not sing like angels (although I've taken part in some beautiful singing with the Old Baptists; makes you sing the hymns and hum the tunes to yourself for the rest of the week ).

 

I like it when a trained acappella groups sings it. I do not like it when a church full of untrained individuals tries to do it.

 

Does a pastor have the authority to stop someone from singing a cappella? My new Missionary Baptist church uses a piano and a fellow uses a guitar and others use their phones and sing along with a song on youtube or they have a CD they sing along with. But I sing a cappella as that was what the churches I used to go to did. It is hard for me to keep up with some songs if music is played with them as I am just not used to it. But they graciously allow me to sing a cappella. And they seem to really like it. But for a pastor to disallow it seems to be a bit over the top.

 

Beware of getting in a rut of either sort, counsels Charles Spurgeon in "Beware of Unbelief":

"we need to escape from these horrid ruts, and wretched conventionalisms, which are rather hindrances than helps. Some very stereotyped brethren judge it to be a crime for an evangelist to sing the gospel; and as to that American organ,—dreadful! One of these days another set of conservative souls will hardly endure a service without such things"

 

Sure, I have oversight of everything in the worship service. I have never been to a church where that was not the case.

 

Lol, I'm trying to figure how you sing a cappella at your church; with some really good ear plugs maybe?

 

If you can't sing good, sing LOUD!!!

 

I added an "I agree" to the above. But I have to say -- I identify with what rsr has said here. In my formative PB days we sometimes had a piano. But in many services a man would start a hymn off with a note from his harmonica and then we would sing the entirety with just our voices. It was beautiful --simplicity is much of the time.

 

You have not yet been privileged to experience it.

 

I love a capella music. Hearing vocal harmonies is amazing. I am of a VERY strong opinion, though, that a soloist should not sing a capella. Firstly, I simply don't think it sounds good.

Secondly, music is comprised of three parts; melody, harmony, and rhythm. If a soloist sings a capella, you have melody and rhythm, but no harmony. You don't have music. You have a tune.

This is one of the same arguments I use against rap "music". If someone is rapping, you lose the harmony and melody, and only have rhythm. If you like it, that's between you and God. But don't call it music, because it's not. Same goes for a capella soloists.

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We had six in attendance at Richmond this morning and had a wonderful song service.