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My home has computer refused to boot. Wow! It's like losing your left arm - I'm right handed. Until it's fixed, these blogs may be sparse.
Karol and I tried another church yesterday. Nice inside with nice seats. Big - It seats about 270. It had a service very much like the one we just left. 20 to 30 minutes of singing followed by 40 to 50 minutes of sermon - interspaced with occasional prayers. It was "Praise" music as opposed to hymns.
Why do church services have to be either or? Why can't there be a mixture - some hymns and some praise music? Are Christians so set in their ways, they can't compromise a little and meet in the middle?
I find the traditional services more varied than the "modern" services. Modern services are a bunch of singing followed by long sermons. I have some suspicions as to why they follow this sequence.
1) It's a lot less work to put a service together.
2) Modern services use a band instead of an organ. The church yesterday had a band that consisted of three musicians and four vocalists. On of the musicians was also a vocalist. That makes for six people. When you have that many people in the band, the logistics prevent interspersing the service with songs here and there. The logistics almost compel the director to put all the music on one place on the program.
Posted by Ted at August 17, 2003 7:54 PM