Trying to figure this one out. We need to have good songs/music, but…well, there are a lot of buts. We don’t want the hassle or complexity of a band. We don’t want bad songs from our past. We don’t want shallow “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs. We do want quality, meaningful songs that are possible to sing decently without a rehearsal. And we need to adapt more contemporary P&W songs for acappella settings.
UPDATE: Having a great email discussion now with Richard, my dad, and the team. Very good insights so far. I’m focusing on the whole-church gatherings, which will likely not be “worship services” as such, and will not be weekly. I suppose this is a separate question from the one above, but an important one.
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I know it’s been forver since a posting… but I came across this site and others when looking for a site and prob. other people do too… I found a couple sites that seemed to just hurt to read- some Christians want to bash the “Jesus is my Boyfriend” phase.. CCM… etc. I think to often we judge how God works in other people’s lives. How are we ever going to achieve unity when we appear to the world to attack the worship, music, new Christian fad that personally isn’t right for us… all I’m saying is agree or disagree, but keep it all as a personal conviction– or else we’ll discourage our fellow Christans and push the lost further away.
Well, I’m not bashing people, but rather music products that I perceive to be inferior and misdirected. Unity is not undermined by different people having different preferences for things like music.
My main reason for not liking “Jesus is my boyfriend” music is that, for many people, it does push them farther away. If Christianity is about being a teenage girl with a crush on Jesus, I don’t want to be a part of it, and I don’t blame anyone else for preferring SportsCenter to that kind of religion (not that you have to choose between SportsCenter and Christianity…=)