Featured 2 Services of Different Styles?

IF the lyrics mention jesus, the Cross they will!

Do you denty the power of the Spirit to reveal jesus to sinners, regardless if country/rock/hymns etc?

 

Am I to assume you are familiar with all such noise made in "worship services"?

God will bring all His elect to salvation. That is a fact. The problem: Does the noise some call music edify God od satisfy the desires of the flesh of some in the congregation?

 

music has no intrisic nature to it though!

can be good or bad, just depends on what is being sung and why!

And playing harder beat is NOT in the flesh nor denying the Lord!

 

I agree...

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

I was addressing the the church's compromise with the world's MUSIC.

And yes I did finish....electricity, air-conditioning, neckties, eyeglasses, and padded seats/pews have nothing to do with how we worship and glorify God in a worship service at church. There are many people who say that the only way to win the world to Christ is to be more like the world. God's Word says that His people are lights to the unbelievers by BEING DIFFERENT, by being separated from the appearance of evil, not by BEING WORLDLY!

 

Very appropriate Scripture.

You are correct and you did finish. The comment regarding electricity and others is simply a "red herring".

 

again, music styles in and by themselves NOT godly/ungodly, it depends upon lryics and intent!

 

The following is from Music in the Balance by Frank Garlock and Kurt Woetzel, Copyright 1992, Majesty Music, pp. 55-59:

 

A "classic" example of what 12 Strings refers to was mentioned in another of my posts on another thread.

The 2d movement of Haydn's String Quartet 62, Op. 76 #2 was adapted to John Newton's ("Amazing Grace") hymn, "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken." This would, according to some, make that music "Christian."

OTOH, this same music was used in what originally was the Austrian Empire's anthem, and which survives today as Germany's national anthem, "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles" (Germany, Germany, Over All). This reportedly was one of Adolph Hitler's favorite songs.

Was Haydn's music "Christian" or was it "worldly"?

 

Wasn't Haydn's music considered "Classical" rather than "worldly"?

Haydn wrote some beautiful Classical music and the lyrics of traditional Gospel hymns which are adapted to that type of music are beautiful.

The fact that the "2d movement of Haydn's String Quartet 62, Op. 76 #2" was the Austrian Empire's anthem, was used as Germany's national anthem, and was one of Adolph Hitler's favorite songs, doesn't change the "type" of music that Haydn originally wrote.

Today we have people adapting the lyrics of traditional Gospel hymns to the tunes of Rock and Roll, hip hop and rap types of music. These are called Gospel "parodies". Though the lyrics may be biblically sound, the music is not Christian, but "worldly" and "sensual". Most of that kind of music is not even understandable. Also, it is more the "rhythm" and the "beat" of the music (rather than the lyrics) on which the listener focuses...rather than on Christ.

Candy coating Rock and Roll, hip hop, and rap music with Gospel lyrics doesn't make that music "Gospel", or "Christian". All this "candy coating" does is to make the music more "appealing" to the "sensual/flesh".

IMO, that kind of music (Rock and Roll, hip hop, and rap) is not acceptable music to be used in a church worship service.

 

So one can do 'how Great thou Art" at a slow tempo, yet when Elvis sung it faster paced, that made it bad by just speeding it up?

is this kinda like swallowing a camal, and straining on a Gnat?

 

so elvis/petra/Third day etc would all be singing 'false christian parody of rock?"

 

Thank you for your posts. You obviously know much more about music than I do. I believe you rightly state that

 

again, would those such as third day/petra/elvis etc that sang Gospel at rock beat were sinning then?

Not singing 'Christian music?"

 

I appreciate your kind comments. I believe the style of music matters in a church worship service and that style should glorify the Lord and keep our focus on Him. In a nutshell, as the "Conclusion" of the following article states, "the message of the music must match the lyrics."

 

Does the rock "beat" of groups such as Petra/Third Day/Elvis, etc. gratify the "flesh" or glorify God? Does the message of the music match the lyrics?

I am not the judge of whether someone is sinning if they sing a certain style of music, only the Holy Spirit of God will convict a person of sin. If a person feels no Holy Spirit conviction, perhaps that person needs to "examine themselves" (2 Cor. 13:5).

 

Doesn't God look at the intent, the motivation? IF a Christian has been blessed by Him to reach out to those in country/rock/hip hop for glory of god, who are we to judge that as unacceptable?