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Originally Posted by tstew
NotOf, all I'm saying is exactly that (this is your opinion and those are your experiences). It is reckless in my opinion to project that onto everybody that you see and to assume that their church's experiences are like yours. That is my point. I don't know anything about your old church so if you say it was manufactured...I will not argue with you, but it is very presumptive to then say that everywhere in the world must have been like that.
I am a musician and I am at a church that has times of worship like this. I am also a minister (interpretation: music is not the only thing important to me). I will absolutely not allow our musicians to fabricate or work up anything like this. Our church does not stop when the music stops...neither do they start when the music starts...there are times of spontaneous worship like this that break out after we have been praising God for a while.
Most often we eventually stop the music in an attempt to "get the service back", but they very often start up again without the music. If I ever felt that the music was manufacturing something that did not exist or was improper, I would absolutely do something about it.
As I have stated earlier, in our church this most often leads to a place of worship once it all settles down. The music slows and people are worshipping, praying, weeping, or whatever all over the sanctuary.
As the music director, I have never allowed the fast stuff to go on so long that it cuts out the rest of the service, but many times we have allowed that place of worship that we reached to take over the service. Families come to the altar, I see people praying and weeping together, I see couples who I know are having problems praying together, visitors get prayed through to the Holy Ghost...so I don't regret those times at all.
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I'm not talking about their church experience or mine. I'm talking about the strategy of using music to get people worked up. I don't like it. I guess that's just what it comes down to. I think it's flesh. But if others think that it's spiritual, so be it.
I just think the written out fake tongues, "sha ma hah" or whatever it was at the beginning, is indicative of the flippant attitude of it all. Like I've said, I'm not a tongue-talker but that's SO disrespectful and reminds me of the Corinthian church and what they were doing with communion. I don't think it's decent and I don't think it's in order.
I also understand I'm touching a pentecostal sacred cow here so I don't expect to get a standing ovation for this.
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