This blog post by Bill Blankschaen has lit up the Internet for the past few weeks. In it he talks about why he’s sick of contemporary praise songs:
I love music. Truly I do. I love to sing. But you wouldn’t know it on Sunday morning when I’m visiting your church.
I’m not talking to all of you, of course. I’m sure many churches, maybe even yours, get it right. I just haven’t been there that often, I guess. My experiences with modern worship music in evangelical Christianity often leave me not just silent, but wondering if I should be joining George Bailey in making a quick exit from the agony. Continue reading.
Pastor Jeff Mikels counters:
Earlier this week, a discussion among the worship band members at my church pointed to this article where Bill Blankschaen describes his frustration with worship songs sung in churches on Sunday mornings and tells us “Why I’ve stopped singing in your church.”
As of this writing right now, he has 241 comments, and he only wrote it three days ago (July 15). Clearly, he has struck a nerve—a nerve deep enough to get my worship band talking about it, and a nerve deep enough to make me blog about it. Continue reading.
2 Responses to “Why I’ve Stopped Singing in Your Church”
July 31, 2012
Peter ThorpThe quickest way to stop the congregation singing is to have the PA sound TOO high. I find if people can’t hear themselves sing, they turn off very quickly and find something else to do – like talk to the person next to them.
July 31, 2012
HeatherI appreciate you providing Jeff M’s response, it was so refreshing and void of the sarcastic tone of the original he was replying to. However many of the comments on Bill B’s post are worth reading for certain.