Drums and Guitars in Church

[Guard Dad]

I deleted my first post of our quartet song on Facebook yesterday because it posted again when I uploaded it to my photo gallery. But in the short time it was up, I had an interesting comment from a guy I "know" from another forum I used to post on.

His comment was "drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back".

First off...our church does have some drums and guitars, but that was a sound track. And none of us are professionals, save maybe GC. But I found his comment interesting. We're not a contemporary church, just a fairly traditional church but with some more modern music blended in. I'm not knocking the guy, we all have different preferences as to our philosophy of worship and music. But it did surprise me that he had such a primitive view of church. And he's not as old as I am. His post almost made it sound like he thought such things were contrary to God's word.

Thoughts? Comments?

 

[deewee]

I guess he thinks God can't be glorified with music played on those instruments. Closed mindedness.

 

[J-man]

I'm not crazy about the drums or guitars but I'm getting used to it. They're softly played and adds to the feel of the music. I see the guys point though, I'm normally a traditionalist but I'm learning to evolve.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

He'd of thought hell opened up if he came to our church.

 

[LisaC]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

 

[Blazing Saddles]

this is one of those gray areas that is not an essential when it comes to people and salvation.

 

[ShoeDiva]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I agree. I am one of those people that do not like it. Doesn't make it wrong or right, I just prefer not to attend a church that does have that type of music and I am far from close minded.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I agree as long as they are saying it is their preference and not a biblical principle.

 

[LisaC]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I agree as long as they are saying it is their preference and not a biblical principle.

Did I say something about a biblical principle? :cantbelievemyeyes Dude, I'm still on the first cup of coffee that I have had in EIGHT days. It's almost Christmas, don't make me :Stick :Stick :Stick :Stick :Stick .

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I never said you said that. The key word in my response is "they". I was referring to them and their opinions and I never accuse them of saying that either. I was just making a point that if people are going to say it is a biblical principle on the music style then I would have a disagreement with them.

 

[rolltidega]

My wife tends to not like all the drums and guitars but she does not base that on why she is attending church. She knows there are different musical styles in worship and that God can equally use all of them. If God has given someone an amazing talent to play drums or play guitar then why shouldn't they use them in church to glorify Him. That's my view on it. We all worship Him in many different ways. As long as the focus of worship is on Him and not the people playing or singing the music then I believe it is pleasing to Him.

I deleted my first post of our quartet song on Facebook yesterday because it posted again when I uploaded it to my photo gallery. But in the short time it was up, I had an interesting comment from a guy I "know" from another forum I used to post on.

His comment was "drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back".

First off...our church does have some drums and guitars, but that was a sound track. And none of us are professionals, save maybe GC. But I found his comment interesting. We're not a contemporary church, just a fairly traditional church but with some more modern music blended in. I'm not knocking the guy, we all have different preferences as to our philosophy of worship and music. But it did surprise me that he had such a primitive view of church. And he's not as old as I am. His post almost made it sound like he thought such things were contrary to God's word.

Thoughts? Comments?

 

[deewee]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I went by the comment the person made, as posted by GD, to determine that this was a closed minded individual, or maybe I should have said judgemental?

"drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back"

 

[LisaC]

I never said you said that. The key word in my response is "they". I was referring to them and their opinions and I never accuse them of saying that either. I was just making a point that if people are going to say it is a biblical principle on the music style then I would have a disagreement with them.

I don't think any of the folks I know would say that is is based on "biblical" principle, but several of them wouldn't like it because of it goes against their "principles" of how they prefer worship to be conducted in church. My personal preference is that I would prefer the music in church to be performed by an orchestra and not a rock band, but I still love contemporary Christian music.

 

[ShoeDiva]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I went by the comment the person made, as posted by GD, to determine that this was a closed minded individual, or maybe I should have said judgemental?

"drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back"

I do not see it as either. If I attend a service that had those, again my preference, would be not to attend again. It is not how I want to worship, but it could be, and obviously is for others. Maybe he should not (he shouldn't have) put that on a video that someone posted on face book, but I do not think the opinion makes him wrong, close minded, or judgmental. It is his opinion on worship. We all seem to have them. )

 

[Guard Dad]

I think what bothered me about it was the "absolute" of not having those instruments in church. Our church is far from being a "rock and roll" church; it's still mostly traditional. But we do have drums and a bass guitar that plays along with the keyboardists part of the time. And we do use tracks at times. I don't see any of these, or even the full-blown contemporary services as being wrong and I would not have that kind of reaction at any of it. We visited a couple of all-out contemporary churches before joining this one, and while they weren't the type of churches we saw ourselves becoming members of, we did enjoy them.

Interestingly...this same guy's ex-wife is a pastor. Yeah...OK with women pastors but not drums and guitars? Just seems odd.

 

[deewee]

I think what bothered me about it was the "absolute" of not having those instruments in church. Our church is far from being a "rock and roll" church; it's still mostly traditional. But we do have drums and a bass guitar that plays along with the keyboardists part of the time. And we do use tracks at times. I don't see any of these, or even the full-blown contemporary services as being wrong and I would not have that kind of reaction at any of it. We visited a couple of all-out contemporary churches before joining this one, and while they weren't the type of churches we saw ourselves becoming members of, we did enjoy them.

Interestingly...this same guy's ex-wife is a pastor. Yeah...OK with women pastors but not drums and guitars? Just seems odd.

My dad knows, and liked your pastor, but he is not wild about contemporary worship music, or having screens up with the words on them. Not sure if y'alls church does that but he's under the impression that it does. I've mentioned to him before about visiting y'alls church when they left Lighthouse Baptist. His response was, "I prefer churches that sing from only the hymn book". I think dad said it much nicer than the fellow that posted the comment.

 

[deewee]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I went by the comment the person made, as posted by GD, to determine that this was a closed minded individual, or maybe I should have said judgemental?

"drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back"

I do not see it as either. If I attend a service that had those, again my preference, would be not to attend again. It is not how I want to worship, but it could be, and obviously is for others. Maybe he should not (he shouldn't have) put that on a video that someone posted on face book, but I do not think the opinion makes him wrong, close minded, or judgmental. It is his opinion on worship. We all seem to have them. )

The wording used is what I am going by, as that is all that I know about the person, and the wording was rather harsh. I'm not saying he's wrong in his preference. I am saying he was being closed minded about the musical instruments. And he was, according to his comment.

 

[Guard Dad]

I think what bothered me about it was the "absolute" of not having those instruments in church. Our church is far from being a "rock and roll" church; it's still mostly traditional. But we do have drums and a bass guitar that plays along with the keyboardists part of the time. And we do use tracks at times. I don't see any of these, or even the full-blown contemporary services as being wrong and I would not have that kind of reaction at any of it. We visited a couple of all-out contemporary churches before joining this one, and while they weren't the type of churches we saw ourselves becoming members of, we did enjoy them.

Interestingly...this same guy's ex-wife is a pastor. Yeah...OK with women pastors but not drums and guitars? Just seems odd.

My dad knows, and liked your pastor, but he is not wild about contemporary worship music, or having screens up with the words on them. Not sure if y'alls church does that but he's under the impression that it does. I've mentioned to him before about visiting y'alls church when they left Lighthouse Baptist. His response was, "I prefer churches that sing from only the hymn book". I think dad said it much nicer than the fellow that posted the comment.

We have very little contemporary music now. We're mostly traditional and southern gospel. We do have video screens, but hymnals in the pews too. I also like to use a hymnal because I sing harmony.

 

[Guard Dad]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I went by the comment the person made, as posted by GD, to determine that this was a closed minded individual, or maybe I should have said judgemental?

"drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back"

I do not see it as either. If I attend a service that had those, again my preference, would be not to attend again. It is not how I want to worship, but it could be, and obviously is for others. Maybe he should not (he shouldn't have) put that on a video that someone posted on face book, but I do not think the opinion makes him wrong, close minded, or judgmental. It is his opinion on worship. We all seem to have them. )

The wording used is what I am going by, as that is all that I know about the person, and the wording was rather harsh. I'm not saying he's wrong in his preference. I am saying he was being closed minded about the musical instruments. And he was, according to his comment.

I agree. It is not automatically bad to have musical instruments.

 

[LisaC]

You know, several of our senior members of our church don't like drums and guitars during worship. To them, worship means something different and I don't think that makes them closed minded - I think it just means that they have a different view. And, I'm good with that's since God made each of us to be different (and some of y'all take "different" to a whole new level). :whistle

I went by the comment the person made, as posted by GD, to determine that this was a closed minded individual, or maybe I should have said judgemental?

"drums, guitars, and professional singers...I would leave and never come back"

I do not see it as either. If I attend a service that had those, again my preference, would be not to attend again. It is not how I want to worship, but it could be, and obviously is for others. Maybe he should not (he shouldn't have) put that on a video that someone posted on face book, but I do not think the opinion makes him wrong, close minded, or judgmental. It is his opinion on worship. We all seem to have them. )

The wording used is what I am going by, as that is all that I know about the person, and the wording was rather harsh. I'm not saying he's wrong in his preference. I am saying he was being closed minded about the musical instruments. And he was, according to his comment.

I agree. It is not automatically bad to have musical instruments.

Nor is it automatically bad if you don't like it. Traditional churches (like Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Methodist) still, for the most part, see worship inside the "temple" as more reverent. Heck, even Baptists used to think that until they decided to compete with these newer mega-churches.