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Discussion in 'Music Ministry' started by Revmitchell, Nov 9, 2014.

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  1. InTheLight

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    Yes! That has happened to me as well. Not a good feeling to discover you are disliking the Bible because it's being sung instead of read.

    I do like the classic hymns but there are good examples of CCM worship songs. I would say Delirious' "Can You Feel the Mountains Tremble" is one of them.
     
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    Manifesto - by The City Harmonic

    Absolutely awesome
     
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  3. Revmitchell

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    Was it a Psalm or just a small part of a Psalm.
     
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    THe Getty's are far from theological sound, it's a shame for one to use their music when they are so ecumenical.
     
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    If I remember correctly, a Psalm. It may, however, have been a portion. I didn't pay much attention at first, and now can't remember the psalm.
     
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    I know that a lot of ccm or praise songs will take a verse of a Psalm and make it the basis for the entire song. While they have used scripture it is theologically shallow.
     
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    I have also heard some songs I thought a bit shallow (theologically)...and to include older music as well. What I am speaking of in terms of CCM worship music that I am growing to like (and I know many will disagree) are songs like this:

    http://www.songlyrics.com/aaron-keyes/psalm-62-lyrics/
     
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  8. Revmitchell

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    I listen to some of it. I like a lot of Casting Crowns music and Newsboys. Newsboys recently released and album with all hymns done in their style. I have no appreciation for 7/11 songs.
     
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    Occasionally we sing hymns but to a slightly more contemporary melody (tune...whatever, I'm not a music guy). I've come to really appreciate that type of music. Casting Crowns has always been one of my favorites (not necessarily as church worship music). I also have not appreciation for "7/11 songs." They remind me of ceremonially repeating a prayer, but thankfully we don't sing them....often.

    What I do find difficult is the turnover in music. Rarely do we sing a song enough for the congregation to truly acquire it. It seems that we are often trying to remember words to new songs (or keep up with it on the screen) and they never "sink in." It is not like the older songs that we knew by heart; that we sung from our hearts in worship; that became to a point a part of us. For the most part, we now sing to keep up and gather what ever bits we can catch...but ultimately this doesn't matter because next year those songs will have been replaced anyway.

    I wish my 11 year old son knew songs like "It is Well," "A Mighty Fortress is our God," etc. I wish he knew the songs that his father, grandfather, and great grandfather loved. But most of the kids his age know no worship songs by heart because they change so often. They get the tunes, they get the chorus, and then they get a new song to learn. I suppose to many music no longer holds the importance it once held in churches; it is no longer an anchor not only to our past but also as a means to convey theological truths to draw upon in our future. Anyway, I like much of our contemporary music. I only wish we could hold on to more of the traditional hymns as well.
     
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    Nope. They were always 2000 years old. ;)
     
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    ROTFL - I guess you've never listened to their hymns then.

    Can you tell me one of their songs that not theologically sound?
     
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    :applause::laugh:
     
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    It must be true!! I just read it on the internet!! :thumbsup:
     
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    You can sing contemporary music in the most fundamental of churches. You just have to call it a chorus.
     
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    Very true - but you sing that chorus 11 times.
     
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    Does any of your churches sing any of the psalms? By that, I mean a psalm all the way through (not a chorus from a psalm), and not psalms only. I mean in addition to hymns, do any of you sing one of the psalms ever?

    I have been to churches that are psalms only, and they are enriching, but I am interested in any input on this?

    Thanks in advance

    Bill
     
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    Saw a cartoon where two guys are talking. One asked the other, "What do you do for a living?"
    The other replied,
    "I write worship songs,
    I write worship songs,
    I write worship songs,
    I write worship songs,
    I write worship songs,
    I write worship songs."
    :laugh::D:eek:
     
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    A friend of mine is a worship minister for a church in Norfolk, VA and he was telling me that he along with his contemporaries have found the position to be increasingly stressful as these debates continue to run their usual course through churches around the country. I've often found the traditional vs. contemporary sniping to be very petty and divisive. If you go into the service with your heart ready to worship God, things will probably turn out just fine.
     
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    Nothing wrong with varying taste in music as long as you respect the other guy has as much right to his taste as you do.

    My grandchild and I did have our hearts prepared for worship last Sunday. Both of us about gagged on just one song in the entire CCM service.

    Sorry guys, but an all male praise team breathily groaning how they long for that warm embrace was....off putting.

    We are females, and most of the females joined in the singing, but the rest of the men in the church went silent in a hurry.
     
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  20. Use of Time

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    Case in point.
     
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