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Singing with my guitar, that song was my first church special number! Love it! Not CCM, but not really a hymn, either. More of a Christian folk song--and there was some controversy about that in the 1960's. Should we allow folk songs in the church? :Thumbsdown Our youth group had a great book of...

No problem! Here is our college and seminary: Baptist College of Ministry - Menomonee Falls, WI

I asked. I didn't state. It's much more polite to make a query rather than declare, "This is what you believe..." or simply assume what someone thinks. I wouldn't include country music as CCM. It has a much longer history, and has been a genre of its own far before CCM was invented. And the...

We have a Burmese Baptist student in our seminary right now!

That's semantically what you said before. Please define rock. What are the musical characteristics? So, you can't define rock. And again, stop putting words in my mouth. You did it again!!! I have not yet defined rock until this post. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but you don't seem to have any...

Very true. In fact, I seem to recall that for a while in the early church they did not allow musical instruments. But I have no trouble saying we can follow Psalm 150 as is. In our church we have an orchestra, including various stringed instruments (sans guitar, which however has appeared...

Japan closely follows any American trend. In medicine, for example, they are usually about ten years behind the US, and they send doctors to the US to learn the latest science. Just so in Christianity. I remember when CCM started to become popular in Japan, and it took a while for them to figure...

Okay. You missed the point completely. I DID NOT SAY THAT THEIR CLOTHES SHOWED THEIR SPIRITUAL STATE. It does not. Often a new believer (whatever their clothing) is closer to God than some well-dressed saint. My point was that spiritual growth can result in a better situation for a person after...

Um, no, I didn't endorse the Drifters or any other group in the songs sung by Under the Streetlamp. I was simply pointing out one more group (UTS) that wears suits in our culture. Please stop twisting my words and trying to make me say more than I have. Exactly!! And why do they wear suits? To...

Oh, stop it. I did not say that clothing was a needed part of discipling someone. You twisted my words.

This is true about the NT, but we do have hints in the OT. When you look at the lists of instruments used to praise God in the temple orchestra, there is no drum, though the Egyptians had drums. (Caveat: there were, however, percussion instruments.) Again, in Psalm 150 we are given a list of...

When culture changes, music changes, and not always for the better. The pattern nowadays in pop music is the slide, and it is not good music. Again, vibrato has mostly gone by the wayside. Also, the lyrics are frequently filthy, especially in rap. Go ahead and defend it if you wish, but you'll...

I refuse, with my Greek scholar friend, to say that rap is music. It has no melody, which is essential in music. It is poetry, yes, one element of music. But without melody it is not music. The Bible even teaches this: Isa 23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been...

I wonder how many secular pop groups over the last three decades are worth hearing. I've tried listening to modern pop music and abandoned it many times. Musically they are almost all awful. The thing about the early pop music is that it was musically good, and was sung correctly--diaphragm, not...

But suits/sport coats still mean something, or lawyers, federal agents, preachers, etc., would not still wear them.

;) But you said you did.

I like it when they keep the whole rock band in a different building. :Biggrin On our last furlough the wife and I visited a supporting church that had previously been traditional but had gone to pure rock, with a 60s format band: rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar and drums. The problem...

Then there is this music group, great fun if you like the 1960s. All in suits, as it happens. ;)

I've already said this in a different way. I don't know what a "Tag" or a "Patek" are. Discussing what modesty is would take a whole nother thread. I'm not sure I want to participate--the fall semester starts very soon. But the Greek word only occurs twice in the NT (1 Tim. 2:9 and 3:2). Here...

So you do still wear a suit sometimes. Interesting.