Culture and Worship

[Ascetic X]

Cultural accommodations can result in making church as worldly as possible, even to the point of performing completely secular music in the sanctuary.

A compromise might be having half contemporary music and half hymns, so all ages in the congregation can be satisfied. Often churches have two worship services, one contemporary and one traditional.

When church reflects the culture, worldliness can negate godly separation and sanctification. Thus, churched people become similar to the unchurched in terms of divorce, substance abuse, “adult entertainment”, abortions, fornication, adultery, gender confusion, acceptance of sexual abominations, evolution, socialism, materialism, mammonism, violence, warmongering, denial of the miraculous, rejection of the supernatural, etc.

 

[JonC]

This is right. I used to make experimental, abstract, electronic “noise music”. But if it was too loud, it was muddy. You don’t want all the sounds blurring into each other or one sound overwhelming the others.

My wife and I, when we listened to the National Christian Choir programs on WBNH affiliate of Moody Bible Institute, we often could not understand the words of the hymns and spiritual songs. Too many individuals (175) singing loudly can obscure the lyrics. Or perhaps it was an audio engineering technicality issue.

The older I get the more of an issue this becomes for me. It is not the volume (for me) but the number of voices.