Reading Tony Morgan’s post this morning titled The New Traditional Church: Music, and was totally blown away by the following statement. “I think the number one reason why rock and pop is the predominant genre of music in churches is this: our worship music has become the new ‘hymns’ of the new traditional church. In other words, we grew up listening to that kind of worship music. Frankly, we’d rather play our ‘hymns’ in our services than consider what style of music might more effectively connect with people who need Jesus.”
I think Tony is right on, we as Christians become so complacent with what has become the norm. Why is it that we are afraid to break out of the box and try to become relevant to the culture we live in? Tony points out that nearly 1/3 of the music sold today on iTunes is either hip-hop/rap or R&B/soul, but playing that in church would make us uncomfortable…
Read more:http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/05/06/the-new-traditional-church-music/
