Modernizing church

[jwilliams]

face paint maybe??

[Bigtimber2]

Flat bill, maybe?

[Woodiewacker82]

My wife and I attend a home fellowship and I don't think I could ever have grown as much in my faith as I have in the last year when we do play music it's a good mix. Usual about 25 of us and age ranges from early 20's to mid 60's. And service runs from 9:30 till about 1 and I hate when it's over.

[Sparkleberry Ridge Runner]

face paint maybe??

Ha. Never though about that!

[Black Bart]

Saying you won't go to a church because it is full of hypocrites is like saying you won't go to a hospital because it is full of sick people. We are all sinners in one way or other. Church is the best place for a sinner to be.

Drop the mic, and walk off...

[Fish]

There is always dissonance between trying to do your best and glorifying God/vs 'playing out' and sounding good. We had a musician that was as gifted as I have ever seen, and he intentionally kept everything very bland so he wouldn't get the "Man YOU were great" today stuff. That's a tough balance to keep.

I guess work as worship is foreign to you and your church. Whatever it is you do, sports, music, or checkers, by trying your best you are glorifying God. After all, he put it in you. Not in terms of that stupidity everyone chronically refers to as talent, but in effort over time and learned understanding combined with physical limitations.

Either way, there is plenty of discussion about this topic out there as it relates to sports.

Do you have an ego problem, Art?

[jwilliams]

I guess work as worship is foreign to you and your church. Whatever it is you do, sports, music, or checkers, by trying your best you are glorifying God. After all, he put it in you. Not in terms of that stupidity everyone chronically refers to as talent, but in effort over time and learned understanding combined with physical limitations.

Either way, there is plenty of discussion about this topic out there as it relates to sports.

Do you have an ego problem, Art?

okay bo. whatever

[porkchop 13]

We are all given different talents and we should use them to reach out to people that need to hear God's word in different ways such as music, teaching, preaching etc...

Traditional in my opinion has reached a lot of people but there may have been times that someone would have received blessings earlier in life if there would have been other ways that caught their interest.

[Glenn]

I can beat box like a mofo. Pure talent from birth. No practice.

My rendition of How Great Thou Art will put knees on the carpet, son.

[PBiz]

I can beat box like a mofo. Pure talent from birth. No practice.

My rendition of How Great Thou Art will put knees on the carpet, son.

I heard you can also handle a pretty good rattler snakes..

[Glenn]

I heard you can also handle a pretty good rattler snakes..

[Spur hunter]

Back to the OP. I miss those old hymns too, grew up singing from those books. Don't have so much an issue with the newer contemporary songs if the content is appropriate but those old books gathering dust on the back of the pews just seems a waste to me. Never have quite understood the stigma about them. Would surely like to see them used once in a while but won't check out over it. FWIW, there ain't a non-hypocrite here or in any Church, big or small. Now help me get this plank outta my eye.