Radiate: Tristan Mason's Blog » Sermons http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com An ongoing discussion about God, worship, music, the arts, soul care, and much more Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:05:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What Kind of Music Does God Like? http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2010/08/16/what-kind-of-music/ http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/2010/08/16/what-kind-of-music/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:26:43 +0000 Tristan http://radiate.aplacetoconnect.com/?p=303 I think just about every worship pastor I know has occasionally had to deal with disagreements about music style.  This seems to be a debate that is of far more concern to churches in the United States than in other countries, probably because we seldom, if ever, need to worry about responding to 75% of our congregation being unemployed, or fearing government raids in which we could be arrested for meeting to worship, or living in the middle of a war zone where our congregants are being killed/terrorized/tortured, or wondering how we are going to care for the AIDS orphans in our village.

I am not making light of worship style issues or suggesting that we shouldn’t discuss them; we certainly should have open conversation on the subject.  I am simply suggesting that it might help to approach these discussions from a larger perspective—globally, historically, culturally, and biblically.  And that is why I finally bit the bullet and preached a sermon on music style.  In it, I try to provide some of that perspective.

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