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Originally Posted by notofworks
I honestly didn't see anything cultural about the video. It's the pentecostalism that I don't care for. The intentional fast beat in order to get people worked up is fleshly, emotional, and has nothing to do the the greatness of God...in my opinion.
We once had an organist...one of the best and very well known....that would get this stuff going. And the frenzy would start. But eventually he would work his own self into a frenzy and he'd flip over the organ bench and start destroying the platform.
The problem was, without the music, everyone would stop and he'd be the only one...for a few seconds....still going.
It was always funny but I always wondered, "Aw darn, the worked up music stopped and God must've left 'cuz everyone stopped"
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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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