SRoper
Puritan Board Graduate
Why is it about "Shine, Jesus, Shine" that makes people point to it as an example of all that is wrong with contemporary worship? I have a few ideas, but I'd like to see what others say.
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It's those four infuriating hand-claps in the midst of the chorus. I could bite through nails every time I hear it. Ugh!
Frankly for me it's simple. I just absolutely LOATHE that song anyway. Singing it reminds me of a time when I was little and ate too much cotton candy.
Frankly for me it's simple. I just absolutely LOATHE that song anyway. Singing it reminds me of a time when I was little and ate too much cotton candy.
Can anone post the lyrics?
I don't understand how either of these show "what is wrong with contemporary worship music." It sounds more like an issue of preference.
The church is not the place for anybody to get their personal tastes and preferences satisfied.
Are suggesting a "blended" music ministry?
That's exactly what's wrong with contemporary worship music. It appeals to and plays upon the preferences and tastes of a particular demographic. Whenever the church as the church caters to a particular group (i.e., by playing the music that appeals to them), they by nature alienate all others. That's why you have churches that are 95% young married couples, and then another church that's all homeschooling families, and another that's a bunch of ex-hippies. And that's why in the church it should be neither Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female, neither boomer nor buster, neither single nor family. The church is not the place for anybody to get their personal tastes and preferences satisfied.
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That's exactly what's wrong with contemporary worship music. It appeals to and plays upon the preferences and tastes of a particular demographic.
Doesn't Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley play on the preferences and tastes of a particular set of people too?
If we are non EP, then we can "prefer" some forms of music but within certain limits it usually comes down to mere preference.
Shine, Jesus shine is certainly better than "I come to the Garden alone..when the dew is still on the roses...He walks and talks with me in the Garden alone, or "I know that Jesus lives..because he lives within my heart.." hymns that have become accepted despite poor lyrics.
Song choices and whether we raise hands or not is mostly a preference matter.
Every musical type will appeal to a particular demographic. You can argue how exclusive Psalter, or old hymns, doesn't appeal to a particular demographic because it's more "biblical," but don't pretend that you're not attracting mostly people of European descent who dislike contemporary music in general and are less emotional and expressive in their worship.
Every musical type will appeal to a particular demographic. You can argue how exclusive Psalter, or old hymns, doesn't appeal to a particular demographic because it's more "biblical," but don't pretend that you're not attracting mostly people of European descent who dislike contemporary music in general and are less emotional and expressive in their worship.
Hey Donald. Do you remember when we used to do that one at Grace Covenant back in 95? You seemed pretty in to it back then. Haha!