How important are worship services? Is it important to have the best music possible? Is it important and/or effective to have a lot of people attend just because they like the music? What’s the difference between worship music and a concert? Is there always a difference? Is it a problem to have mediocre music? What
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I’m With Don – Thoughts on Worship Services Part 4
Music in Worship Services: Divisiveness of Worship Music? In part 3, as I was considering the genres of music used in worship services, I an idea occurred to me. This may be a bit tangential to our discussion, but it’s certainly related. It’s been said that Sunday morning (when people go to church) is the
I’m With Don – Thoughts on Worship Services Part 3
Music in Worship Services: What Genre? The last point I made in part 2 brings me to the next. If God wants us to worship him in a way that we enjoy, then when we use music to worship it makes sense for us to use music which we like. But… not everyone listens to
I’m With Don – Thoughts on Worship Services Part 2
(Note: this is part 2 of a post I started here.) Now that I’ve talked about church, I want to begin looking at the worship service. There are typically two main parts to evangelical worship services: singing and a sermon. I’ll talk a bit about each. Music in Worship Services: Worship or Concert? Mention the
Worship or Concert?
I recently overhead a friend of mine commenting about the worship band at church. Basically, he felt that it was too showy. He mentioned how one of the guitarist “struts around stage”. This quickly got me thinking. Being a committed Christian who has attended a lot of church services and being a musician who has
Shortcomings in Contemporary Praise Music
An excellent article can be found here on the some of the problems with contemporary praise music. The article focuses on lyrical content, and makes some great points. I think this is half of the reason I’m not a fan of most contemporary praise music myself. The other half is that the musical style/genre isn’t




