Featured Screens and Hymnals

Not at all. God doesn't want us using animal blood for transfusions, so we can't.

 

[sarcasm]All the reasons cited for hymnals were argued during the battles, but they're valid now, because the new generation is making them for the right reasons. The first time it was just traditionalism.[/sarcasm]

 

you....you know hymns and screens can co-exist, right?

 

When I think of all You are, I have no words
for Your greatness it outshines a thousand suns
And I think of how You love, so undeserved
there's no darkness that your light can't overcome
How great a love He has for us
Though my sins they be as scarlet
though my hands have been an enemy of God
Though my heart has played the harlot
You gave me more than I deserve
when You washed my whole world as white as snow

Scarlet, by Disciple

 

For those reading this after the avatar change, Just_Ahead's previous avatar was Charles Spurgeon sitting at a desk working on a laptop.

 

Hymnals: 400 songs, of which about 25 of them are ever used, 20 if you exclude Christmas hymns.

Screen: No constraints on which songs can be used. Entire library of Christian music available, public domain and under license.

 

Can we argue about the color of the carpet next?

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Red carpet, by all means the color of the carpet should be red, to match the padding in the wood pews.

Let us not forget the scarlet thread.

 

Sinclair Ferguson would take issue with that. He says the only Worship Leader is Christ.

 

Well if you're going to use a screen, I might as well sit down... You don't need a song leader... You brethren take away from the simplicity of worship... Never had a church bulletin... Worship was spontaneous!... Song sung were according to the mood of the church... Most of the time the congregation, picked what they wanted to hear, opened up their hymnals and shouted out a number... Then we sung it... Acapella!.. Simplicity... The preacher preached what he felt the church needed, he didn't prepare a sermon but was prepared to preach what the Lord laid on his heart... Notes?... His notes were scripture!... Simplicity... Singing, praying, preaching!... Just like our Baptist forefathers way before us... Give me that old time religion!... Brother Glen

 

Used to attend a church where the congregational mood was something like ...

"That church across the road is plumb dried up!
Why, they even print a bulletin every week.
Whatever happened to hymn numbers posted on a hymn board?"

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Did y'all see that not having bulletins is among the things criticized in the OP article:

Why Churches Should Ditch Projector Screens And Bring Back Hymnals

"Informality at Church Is Increasing....Between 1998 and 2012, congregations that used choirs in worship decreased from 54 to 45 percent; those using organs dropped from 53 to 42 percent....churches printing bulletins fell from 72 to 62 percent....Informality in worship is way up (shouting 'Amen')....It’s hard to find many churches that haven’t bowed at least one knee to the modern, informal trend."

 

I don't see where technology and the use of it has anything to do with old time religion. Nor should it. The focus should be in doctrine, not what tools we use

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What do these trends really mean?

 

Carpet???
What carpet?

[pdf] The ‘Gold Standard’ of the Wiregrass Primitive Baptists of Georgia: A History of the Crawford Faction of the Alabaha River Primitive Baptist Association, 1842-2007

"While other Primitive Baptist Churches...have begun to use brick, mortar, carpet, and other modern construction techniques, Crawfordite churches remain exactly as they would have appeared over a century ago. They are still fashioned from unfinished pine, with no electricity, carpet, or running water."