From Matt Redman:
I recently came across the comments of an American pastor objecting to the new trend in worship music:
“There are several reasons for opposing it. one, it’s too new. Two, it’s often worldly… The new Christian music is not as pleasant as the more established style. Because there are so many new songs you can’t learn them all. It puts too much emphasis on intrumental music rather than godly lyrics. This new music creates disturbances making people act indecently and disorderly. The preceding generation got along without it. It’s a miney making scheme, and some of these new music upstarts are lewd and loose.”
Perhaps you’ve encountered this kind of comment before? Yet, strikingly, this is not a recent outbust, aimed at the modern worship movement. Not our own one at least. Instead it comes from a pastor in 1723 attacking Isaac Watts, regarded now by many to be the father of the North American hymnody.
Worship Leader, May 2006
Very interesting indeed. I was sold on a professor at certian universities made those comments.
No joke, right before I left (certain city) a prof at a certian university make nearly the exact same comment. Apparently he had been saying to for years but I heard it right before I left. “too many to learn” almost exctly. Sheesh.