Get a good book on music and you quickly learn a "bar song" is not a tune that was sung or played in bars
Obviously all music is going to have a popular element in it.
So in that sense it is all worldly music.
But my stars, if we can't tell that music that has some folks literally bumping and grinding in the pews is inappropriate for use in public worship we really need a revival.
I almost puke at times when some want to make church over so the folks hungover from the bars on Sat. night don't feel at all out of place in church Sunday morning.
Reminds me of a dear friend with whom I disagree strongly on the music they use at their mission to the Navajo's. They make a point of following the traditional music, being culturally relevent, and never pay attention to what the different drum beats, moving to the left, etc mean to the Navajos. So they teach them one thing with words and another with the music.
We do the same. We like a beat or a melody and think we can "Christianize" it without asking what that piece of music was written to accomplish--what is it "saying" without words.
I'm sure you can all imagine the va va va voom beat that goes with skits about strippers you used to see on tv. Now, tell me how on earth and why on earth we would want to "redeem" that for use in the church?
Some would point out that David danced naked before the Lord (or let his undies show), was chastized by his wife whom he immediately relegated to the back tent and say God honored him for his dance.
I'm open to being taught, but just don't find the getting carried away that way praised by God. David WAS a man after God's own heart, but that doesn't mean everything he did was approved.
Ah well, back down off my soap box.
