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Well I'll be kicked and dragged through a bucket of lard. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone make the #6 argument other than myself.

Musical instruments were shunned by the early Christians to keep the services spiritual and simple. They were not used in the synagogues, as their proper place was seen to be in the Temple in accompaniment of sacrifices.

I believe it best to keep instruments out of the services for the same reasons.

 

I have had several previous threads on or related to this subject. You might want to look at those earlier threads.

Here are links to two of them: What Do You Believe about Instrumental Music?

Does Scripture Teach That God Created All Music?

I wholeheartedly believe in having choirs, special numbers, and musical instruments in corporate worship.

 

What a sad reality it is that a believer can feel that he does not "particularly like most of the music in [his] church."

 

This might be of interest to some... Way back in the day I decided to go to a singing school and the only songs we sung were spiritual hymns... In four point harmony, we were taught to sing better, using the fa, so, la method and also with not any musical instruments... We sang acapella... That is the same way I lead in church... Acapella... And Aaron I've been saying the same thing on here since I joined... But here is an interesting side note, the people that were there knew by observation, that there were no musical instruments in sight... Some of the people we played the recoding to, said I'm absolutely sure I heard and organ in there?... No just human voices!... Now imagine the angels of God with the redeemed Saints of God praising the Godhead in unison!... I'm... Brother Glen

And Peter is not going to be on the pipe organ, while Paul is tickling the ivories!

 

If folks in the hollers can bellow like an organ, surely they could do something like what in urban areas is called 'beatboxing' (vocal percussion).

 

I don't know Jon but Gabriel's on the trumpet!... Oh and I forgot the angels are playing harps... And me?... Well I'm playing the Jew's harp (that's strange I'm not Jewish)... Now if you want to know who's on the drums?... You are going to have to go to the other place!... Brother Glen

 

This following poem by Archie Campbell of, for all you old timers of Hee-Haw it's one of my favorites... Brother Glen

The Trouble In The Amen Corner

• 
  It was a stylish congregation: you could see they’d been around,
  And they had the biggest pipe organ of any church in town.
  But over in the amen-corner of that church sat Brother Eyer,
  and he insisted every Sunday on singing in the choir.
  His voice was cracked and broken; age had touched his vocal chords,
  And nearly every Sunday he’d get behind and miss the words.
  Well, the choir got so flustered the church was told in fine
  that Brother Eyer must stop singing or the choir was gonna resign.
  
  So the pastor appointed a committee, I think it was three or four,
  and they got in their big fine car and drove up to Eyer’s door.
  They found the choir’s great trouble sitting there in an old arm-chair,
  The summer’s golden sunbeams lay upon his snow-white hair.
  
  Said one, “We’re here dear Brother, with the vestry’s approbation
  to discuss a little matter that affects the congregation.
  Now, it seems that your voice is interfering with the choir,
  So, if you’ll just lay out, or...Are you listening, Brother Eyer..?”
  
  The old man raised his head, a sign that he did hear;
  and on his furrowed cheek they caught the glitter of a tear.
  His feeble hands pushed back the locks as white as silky snow,
  and he answered the committee in a voice both soft and low:
  
  “I wonder if beyond the tide that’s breaking at my feet,
  in that far-off heavenly temple where my Master and I shall meet:
  Yes, I wonder if, when I try to sing the songs of God up higher
  I wonder if they’ll kick me out of singing in Heaven’s choir?”
  
  A silence filled the little room, the old man bowed his head;
  The committee went on back to town, but Brother Eyer was dead.
  A few church-goers watched the door, but the old man entered not.
  The choir missed him for a while, but he was soon forgot.
  
  Far away his voice is sweet, and he sings his heart’s desires
  Where there are no church committees and no fashionable choirs.
  

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If God has expressed no preference, then that which is being vaunted is that which is loved by man. Which man's preference should prevail?

 

I usually just mouth the words to songs, to better preserve the peace.
but there’s this one woman….
… she could peal the paint off a wall with her voice.
And she loves to sing… LOUD

Bring on the instruments - the louder the better!

I’m hoping there’s a “special place” in heaven for people with a voice like that.

Rob

 

Singing in church too loudly. Results by Stuart Hamblin