what do you all think

[IreneM]

SOME PREDICT SERMONS WILL FADE OR CHANGE IN NEXT WAVE OF "POSTMODERN" WORSHIP. Friday Church News Notes, November 19, 2004 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org, http://www.wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Some contemporary Christian leaders are predicting that preaching will be dramatically changed in coming days. This came out recently in a symposium called "Music and Worship in an Emerging Culture" at Baylor University ("Speakers predict sermons will change in next wave of postmodern worship," Associated Baptist Press, Oct. 26). Chris Seay of Ecclesia in Houston believes that art and dance and music will play increasingly larger roles. He says sermons must be modified radically because "the postmodern person" has a shorter attention span and learns more through stories and visuals. Brian McLaren of Cedar Ridge Community Church near Washington D.C., observes the songwriters play a more important role already than preachers. Hulitt Gloer of Baylor's Truett Seminary said that sermons need "intentional silences in them." Louie Giglio of Choice Resources says that preachers need to understand that people today "aren't hungry for information." Julie Pennington-Russell, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, said the preacher should cease to be "a spiritual example." Appearing to mock traditional biblical preaching, she said, "It's not like where you tie a Scripture to a chair and beat it with a rubber hose for 20 minutes to see what you can get out of it." According to 2 Timothy 4:2-4, apostasy is closely associated with a rejection of biblical preaching.

DIDN'T LUTHER AND THE WESLEYS USE BARROOM TUNES? Friday Church News Notes, November 19, 2004 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org, http://www.wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Those who defend Contemporary Christian Music often claim that hymn writers Martin Luther and John and Charles Wesley used bar room tunes; therefore, it is legitimate, allegedly, to use rock music today. In fact, neither Luther nor the Wesleys used bar room tunes. Note the following quotes from authorities in this field: "Luther steered clear of rollicking drinking songs. He never considered music a mere tool that could be employed regardless of its original association but was careful to match text and tune, so that each text would have its own proper tune and so that both would complement each other" (Ulrich Leupold, "Learning from Luther?" Journal of Church Music, July-August 1996, p. 5). "The Wesleys did not use tavern or drinking songs to carry their texts. Their theology as well as their sense of aesthetics would have made such an occurrence unthinkable. There are no such examples in their collections. There are no suggestions or recommendations that others do so in any of their writings" (Dean McIntyre, director of worship resources at the United Methodist Board of Discipleship, United Methodist News Service, September 30, 2002).

[apothanein kerdos]

The first article doesn't suprise me at all. Unfortunately many Christians have turned worship music (by Biblical definition, an expression of what we already have with Christ) into a self-gratifying expirience of emotions. They've forgone the greatest commands and instead turned to gratifying themselves.

The second seems out of place though...are you saying that Christian rock is evil or that the way certain Christian music is handled is wrong?

[IreneM]

I wasn;t saying anything I just copy and pasted the artical.........

wanting opinions seems churches are changing everything lately and wondered what others thought.......

In Christ

IreneM