Subject: To obey or not to obey ! |
Bible Note: Taleb Scratch, groan!! That is me crawling back up on the soapbox. You touched on it let me expand. Hymns, they weren't invented for our entertainment, or to give us chill bumps, they were conceived as a way to help people memorize important doctrine and scripture. Today we have thrown the whole concept out of the church. Today we use choruses to get people in the "mood" to worship, to entertain, to give chill bumps. We will even do it as the expense of doctrine or right teaching. If you really listen to what many sing today it is horrifying. Some songs talk more about us and what we are going to do, instead of glorifying God we are glorifying ourselves. Other songs spend more time talking to Satan it makes one wonder are we here to praise and worship God or Satan? Others just have flat out bad theology. No one seems to care as long as the song has a nice beat, stirs emotions, and excites the physical. Many time you can ask someone do you believe what they just sang and they say yes then you tell them and their shocked. It is like they check their brain at the door when they walk into church. Walk into most churches and suggest a hymn and listen to the moans, and comments like that is old time. Hymns have been around through nearly all the transitions of music and have remained unique until the last 30-50 years, now they have become “old time.” Notice also the church has dumbed down during the same period. In and effort to avoid “religion” and get something “fresh” we have lost the fundamentals that may the faith so precious. Now every wind of doctrine prevails and people believes what seems right in their mind. What a tragedy people are being deceived because we want the new, the fresh, who cares if it right as long as it sounds good. Thud! That was me getting off my box. EdB |