I Still Love Good Choirs

[rgcraig]

This is from this past Sunday at TPC - Memphis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vfvNZRP0VU

[rgcraig]

So many churches have gotten away from choirs.......

[houston]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

So many churches have gotten away from choirs.......

cos they drown out the acoustic guitar

[seekerman]

That's more like it. Real, Holy Ghost music.

[RandyWayne]

I actually don't mind it in church. It is certainly better than the light guitar strumming Hillsong type stuff which seems to be played most of the time.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I actually don't mind it in church. It is certainly better than the light guitar strumming Hillsong type stuff which seems to be played most of the time.

I totally agree. Some (okay, a LOT) of modern worship music bores me to tears. Hillsong is at the top of my BORING list. There are a few songs that I like, so I'm not discounting all the good stuff, but after awhile it all sounds the same.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I totally agree. Some (okay, a LOT) of modern worship music bores me to tears. Hillsong is at the top of my BORING list. There are a few songs that I like, so I'm not discounting all the good stuff, but after awhile it all sounds the same.

My favorite church music would have to be big band. And no, I've never seen a church that played swing, but I can just imagine what it would be like! I can envision someone doing back flips down the isle, John Belushi style, while the band is belting out Sing Sing Sing.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

My favorite church music would have to be big band. And no, I've never seen a church that played swing, but I can just imagine what it would be like! I can envision someone doing back flips down the isle, John Belushi style, while the band is belting out Sing Sing Sing.

There was a group at IBC Music Fest one year who played something in the jazz/blues category. Musically, it was great--however, I think it felt a little too secular and quite a few people seemed uncomfortable (and were consequently unresponsive). I think it would have fared better with a smaller, less diverse audience.

[seekerman]

Several years ago, I went to a tent revival which featured a well known charismatic minister and there were several hundred attending that night. The songs were the plain, vanilla, charismatiky, same few words repeated over and over modern type songs. Very little melody if any, no spirit behind them at all.

Well, lo and behold they actually had a Hammond organ on stage and they cranked it up. "Jesus On The Main Line Now" started and there was an immediate and amazing transformation to the crowd. Where the worship was forced before, it was like chains had been taken off and the crowd was moved by the presence of the Holy Ghost and began to worship in earnest. I stood there dumbfounded wondering WHY did most churches force their congregation to sing the shallow charismatic songs off the wall and ban the pentecostal worship music which made the pentecostal movement so powerful?

I still don't have an answer and I still don't understand why churches feel like they have to do the soulless music they do. It's almost like they're unwittingly welcoming spiritual darkness into the sanctuary by choosing to worship with songs which have little or no Holy Ghost moving behind them.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

There was a group at IBC Music Fest one year who played something in the jazz/blues category. Musically, it was great--however, I think it felt a little too secular and quite a few people seemed uncomfortable (and were consequently unresponsive). I think it would have fared better with a smaller, less diverse audience.

Jazz tends to be on the sultry side and while I enjoy listening to it, I cannot see actually listening to a Jazz band play in church -maybe a few riffs here and there to make things interesting but not the whole time.

Surprisingly I do enjoy choir music in church, but ONLY in church. It is not something I would listen to driving in the car or sitting in my office.