Musical Answers

Ok, to answer those questions:

What other Christian songs do I like?  Off the top of my head:

A Mighty Fortress

Amazing Grace

Color Song – Michael W Smith

Easter Song – 2^nd Chapter of Acts

Hollow Eyes - Petra

Old Rugged Cross

Shame - Newsboys

Testify To Love-Wynona Judd

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Newsboys

Why is Kris anti-music?

It is not that I am anti-music, I am just not pro-music, especially in the Church.  Music is great for youth gatherings, campouts and the such.  But, it is NOT worship, as it is continually portrayed in today’s Church.  If you want to have WORSHIP then the Church would need to have testimonies, prayer and praise – then yes an extremely small amount of singing might add to worship but certainly is not to be the emphasis.  Sorry, the Bible will not support any other interpretation…

For those whom say that music “sets” a mood, then you have a real problem because real Christianity does not need “a mood” to be set.  The Holy Spirit is supposed to be leading and setting any “mood” – not a music director attempting to toy with human emotion.

For those whom say that music is their “way” of worshipping God, I am happy for you.  But how do you then challenge the 21^st century believer whom thinks they can commune with God more fully in the woods by themselves?  Paganism is paganism, not matter where it occurs or under what label.  Sorry, you are pagan if you believe either of these ways. 

More fully, the minority of any congregation will believe this musical way, so when will the Church start to support those of us for whom worship is the heavy study of Scripture?  Will we ever get a Sunday where we can spend 40 minutes parsing a critical verse – as opposed to 40 minutes of blithely mouthing words so the music director and their ilk can “worship”?

Music has not been a historical part of the Christian Church, mid-18^th century saw the first real acceptance of this and that would be without instruments and only in a minority of churches.  There is a ton of bad historians out there that would have you incorrectly think otherwise on this subject.  If you believe music is historical – find the PRIMARY documents to prove this.  They do not exist.  If you want to argue that David wrote music and sang, ok – go be like David and dance naked through your town.  No difference, he was worshipping God after all.  In any event, the songs were Scripture not mood setting me-isms!

Sorry you asked?  Yeah, I am just not politically correct – ever.