Featured What Is Unacceptable in Corporate Worship?

These are patently unbiblical notions. God demands that His people be holy people in everything that they do. God did not create humans or their body parts so that their dead bodies or any parts of their dead bodies would be used in any manner as musical instruments. Using real human skulls as drums is an unholy practice that desecrates human bones. All such misuse of human skulls profanes God and the image of God in man.

 

The video that you saw was only one of the songs that we sang in worship on that evening. That service was many years ago, but I am confident that in some of the other songs we did use some of those other instruments.

We do have people playing harps, horns, and some percussion instruments regularly in our services, but you will never hear any music in my church where the use of percussion is anything like what characterizes CCM/CWM.

In addition, I am not ignoring the rest of the Psalm. When you carefully and thoroughly compare Scripture with Scripture, it's clear that what Psalm 81 teaches has to be harmonized with other passages. Those passages shows that God has accepted corporate worship that did not always feature the use of all the same combinations of instruments played at the same time.

For example, 2 Chronicles 5 records one of the most important occasions of corporate worship in the history of the world-- at the dedication of the Solomonic Temple. The biblical record of that event speaks of the use of cymbals, psalteries, harps, and trumpets (2 Chron. 5:12-14) but does not say anything about the use of timbrels, tabrets, or any other kinds of drum-like instruments.

We know with absolute certainty that God accepted that corporate worship that does not mention the use of any drum-like instruments.

 

First Samuel 1 was not corporate worship and did not involve anyone whispering in singing to God in corporate worship. There is zero Scripture that shows that God has ever accepted whispering in singing that was done in corporate worship.

 

In principle, I already addressed such a situation back in message #3:

"Scripture makes it plain that characteristically whispering out lyrics when singing (excepting, of course, those who are physically incapable of singing aloud) has no place in acceptable corporate worship"

A person who has laryngitis is (temporarily) physically incapable of singing aloud . . .

 

So what? Whispering in singing when one is physically capable of singing aloud fails to meet God's explicitly and repeatedly stated requirement that people sing aloud.

 

According to your handling of Scripture, all the Israelites failed to worship God properly at the dedication of the Solomonic Temple because the passage does not say that they used "hand" drums on that occasion. Of course, your handling of Scripture is wrong because the passage explicitly shows that God accepted their worship that does not mention any use of "hand" drums.

 

I have already answered these questions back in message #3. What's acceptable to God from people who are physically incapable has no relevance for those who choose to disobey God when they have the ability to obey Him.

 

The true grace of God that brings salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts:

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world

Playing skull drums, singing like a harlot, twerking, whispering in singing when one is capable of singing aloud, and much more are all manifestations of ungodliness and worldly lusts that God's true grace teaches us to deny.