The Tradition of Music
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The Tradition of Music
On Sunday November 19, we spent some time discussing the tradition of music in worship. We'll see if we can't get some followup on the discussion posted here. Stay tuned, so to speak!
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Worship, from someone who is musically deficient can be difficult. I can neither sing nor play an instrument, I have no ability to find a key or to make my voice consistantly manouvre in a singing like fashion. But, God calls me to worship.
In the Christian world that means music somehow. well, I don't have that, so I must ask the question? Can't I worship some other way? I remmber being told that my works worship God, and other stuff. But it doesn't seem the same, it doesn't seem like it is in the right space. I'm not looking for a feeling of worship, just the acceptance between God and I that I have made an authentic sacrifice to worship.
This could be a manifesto posting, if I could remember how to do that. But I believe worship must mean more than singing selected songs. Certainly singing a worship song doesn't mean it is worship. I don't have the theological wording to describe the details of what constitutes worship, but from what I understand it is not limited to music.
I don't want to minimize the importance of music as worship, I just don't understand it to be the only method of worship.
Actually it already is a manifesto posting, if this posting says what I think you are meaning: "Our whole life is an act of worship"
it's kind of interesting; it's reallly only in the last 15-20 years, and mostly in later evangelical/charismatic cirlces, that the word "worship" has been used interchangeably with "music". I think it does both words a great disservice.
That sounds good to me
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