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Originally Posted by missourimary
I've heard a lot of repetitious songs through the years, but the songs we sing now are for the most part Biblically correct and meaningful. It's the ones like "I know God is God", "Shout, shout, shout all night", and "God's not Dead, He's Alive" that, though they can be fun once or twice, we used to sing wwaaaaayyy too long. And we even chose parts of them to repeat again and again, as though the songs themselves weren't repetitious enough.
*I'm not saying these songs can't be encouraging or whatever once in awhile. Just the way they were used at my church and the fact that they were sung every week lacked some meaning for me. The first time I heard "Shout, shout, shout all night"... and maybe even the second or third time, I really enjoyed it. And I loved "God's not Dead" until it became popular to sing the phrase "I feel it all over me, I feel it all over me..." repeatedly. I got bored one night and counted. That phrase was repeated 90-something times before they moved to the next line of the song.
We sing some hymns with the contemporary music. I feel badly for older members, though. They like the church, but it's pretty obvious some of them miss the songs they have fond memories of and are reminded of God's blessings through. It's sad that we stop singing some of the old ones.
Of the new ones, some groups are hard to sing to, like David Crowder Band. Others are easier, like Michael W Smith and Chris Tomlin.
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We sing songs from David Crowder, Israel Houghton, Ricardo Sanchez, Kari Jobe etc etc.
I find the contemporary songs that we sing to be reflective, worshipful and often prayer like in themselves. They are worship... praise... and prayer. I much prefer them over the "get excited about what God is going to give you while I sing it 7 times over again" songs that we used to sing.
As a matter of fact portion of The Revival Hymn come to mind when I typed that.
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