[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

I met before the HWMR dominated the meeting. In my local church we met "on the local ground", but other than that anything goes. You could bring a tuba to a meeting if you wanted..

I had some comments to make, but wanted to spare the "Lily Hsu/Dana Roberts" thread from further extraneous commentary. So I'll move some posts over here.

Originally Posted by HERn

In the early 1970s I heard a preacher say that syncopated music was the devil's music. Preachers say a lot of things.

Originally Posted by awareness

I remember when rock was called Satan's music. Well he must no longer be a fan of rock and is now into Rap ...

Oh how we use Satan to put people and their ways down.

Originally Posted by OBW

The style might be. But in the churches that reject it currently as being "of the present evil age" when it is otherwise part of their culture. For us WASPs, hip hop is probably not going to be coming any time soon. Just as songs written to Beatles tunes is not likely coming to African American churches. Nothing wrong with either set of churches or their music — new or old.

And the issues is primarily among the kind of fundamentalism that does (did) things like preach against toilets and bathtubs inside of houses decades ago, but all allow them in today. Who decry songs in the "current" style, but now have songs from the popular styles of a generation or two past (that they were busy preaching against back then).

That was the point.

At the beginning of this thread, I mentioned how I liked the downer music of Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and the Who. Disaffected youth.

Then I got saved and got a "new song", and shortly thereafter was in the LC meetings singing not only the venerable Christian hymns and the Witness Lee knock-offs of those hymns, but also spiritual songs of every type and stripe.

As I said, you'd go to a Lord's Table meeting and whatever instruments were brought in, we'd make a racket. We had a guy who used to play piano in saloons, and someone else played violin at the conservatory. Everyone would chip in. And you never knew who might walk in the door, and what song would be called. It was better than a Grateful Dead concert, I felt.

"The bus came by and I got on/That's when it all began". It made this ex-hippie truly reborn. All the freaks and weirdos were now in the Local Church. As I said, it was "anything goes", and that uncertainty really made the music seem like a "new song."