Re: One question for you all: At what point does Praise and Worship music become too commercial?

Date: 2 Jul 2003 13:34:14 GMT
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Joy <email-address-deleted> espoused:
> glorifies God. That's all. They don't claim to have deep worship
> experiences, but they rather they sing along to Christ-centered lyrics than
> anything else. It's true that they're not in it for the brilliance or
> originality - they're into it because they want to keep focused on
> Christ-centered words while they drive/work/etc. I may have misspoke when I
> said they used it as "white noise", implying that they didn't care about
> it - I meant that they just wanted to be surrounded by God-glorifying words
> rather than not. They *prefer* Christian music that directly addresses God.
So (and I'm just being argumentative here), what about the idea that it
may be a bad thing to vulgarize (ie, make common) songs that are supposed
to be worshipping God?
I mean, most people who listen to non-xian radio in the way you describe
don't pay any attention at all to the words. Oh, they can sing along all
right, they know all the words - but then you ask them what the song is
about, and they haven't a clue. Try asking people what Dave Matthews is
singing about in "Crash."
So is it really good that they're doing this to lyrics that were
(presumably) originally intended to be sung as worship to God? (Note: I'm
not saying that they're *not* in some instances, but I have to assert that
this is the case in others) Do we want people mumbling the words to
"Agnus Dei" without thinking about what it means?
I don't know. I guess for my personal preference, there are other kinds
of positive music that can fill this role (most of the non-P&W rack at
your local CBS, for example. SCC2 collection alone will get you half-way
through the day!)
Then again, for my personal preference I prefer to pay attention to the
lyrics of any song. And of course the argument that SCC2 and non
P&W-labeled songs can also be classified as worshipo songs.
Hmm....
Troy