Dear Ann,
I saw the "Flower Power" ad on TV recently and there's no link between it and the P&W music CD sold by the same company, Time-Life.
Growing up during the '60's,'70's,and '80's, I liked some of the music put out during those decades and I never did drugs. So Aaron can't use that to justify himself. :laugh:
You see, Aaron has a problem with contemporary music (sacred & secular) and wants to project his "problem" onto the rest of us by sounding rather authoritarian and dogmatic in his opinions (the operative word is: "opinions") and using Scripture to "proof text" them.
The Scriptures that he quotes have nothing to do with music styles. If you follow his argument far enough, then the hymns and other sacred music written over the last 1900+ years should be as equally condemned as Contemporary Worship Music is !
Does he know what the music of the NT sounded like ? And what of believers in other countries and cultures ? Is their worship condemned by God because their music doesn't pass Aaron's muster ?
You wrote : " They're raising hands, dancing and such?? And you're saying that because they do this that doing it in worship is "carnal"? (If I'm wrong, say so - but I'm guessing from inference that this is what it is.) Boy, those who do that had better read the Scriptures and find out the TRUE forms of worship!! Ummmm - oh right - raising hands, dancing, and such........ " and you are quite right, especially when it comes to reading what the Scripture has to say on the subject !
In Christ,
Dale
