What Makes for a Good Musical Worship Experience?

[@Pslamist]

Thanks for sharing this! As a music pastor, it's huge blessing every time you talk on the topic. Also, thanks for putting the Farsi speaking people in the spotlight here so we can pray for them and the ministry!!

[@wayNAY87]

The testimony about the Afghani pastor 😢I’m so convicted to pray for our brothers and sisters living under persecution around the world. And to give to Desiring God.

[@TheSilverWolf9]

Oh Jesus have mercy on Afghanistan and my brothers and sisters there! Tell them we cry out for them and we love them. May the God of all peace strengthen your hearts always in Jesus Name 🙏 Thank you for this podcast and for the testimony. They were so moving.

[@thomasgreen8532]

Thank you, when I first got saved more than 40 years ago I loved to sing and I still do but I can’t anymore because as you said the music has changed making it difficult to sing. Not so much the style but range of the music. Young people can sing it but I can not very frustrating.

[@jimradford8485]

Hey, Simon. I like this, and I am really glad you posted it. I am sending you via Messenger a longer and more detailed comment that I didn't feel was appropriate for the general Facebook audience. Blessings.

[@stephenhoward631]

hi great word big thanks,

[@jamesbyersmusic]

Great discussion ! I've been in worship situations where the band sound amazing, as if I were listening to Fleetwood Mac or The Beatles, but there's been no sense of actual worship and no feeling of the Spirit being present. I've also been in situations where the band sound awful, not together and seem like they haven't rehearsed at all and the songs have been boring, BUT there has been such a sense of the spirit that whether the music is good or not doesn't matter. But whatever we do we need to always be actually worshipping, not just attending a worship experience/evening.

[@Yea-okk]

Whatever raises the passions of His people to worship Him, imo.

[@luiscortes313]

❤

[@rabokarabekian409]

The church of Christ sang a cappella in the days of the apostles, so the church of Christ sings a cappella today. It really is as simple as that. Churches today should strive to be identical to the church in the New Testament (Romans 16:16). Before we practice anything, we verify that it was practiced by the first century church. Thus “proving all things,” we hold “fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21; cf. Jeremiah 6:16). It is the safest approach one can take in religion-the way that is right and cannot be wrong. No scholar (of whom I am aware) says early Christians used instruments. No Bible verse records it. The phrase a cappella, which now means “without instrumental accompaniment,” originally meant “as in church.” Instruments were available and widely used in pagan worship and theaters, as well as the Jewish temple, but they were not used by the church. Standard reference works and music textbooks confirm this. Emil Nauman wrote in The History of Music: “There can be no doubt that originally the music of the divine service was everywhere entirely of a vocal nature” (Vol. 1, p. 177). Wycliffe Bible Dictionary says, “There is no record in the New Testament of the use of instruments in the musical worship of the Christian church.” The Catholic Encyclopedia reads, “The first Christians were of too spiritual a fiber to substitute lifeless instruments for or to use them to accompany the human voice.” More than five hundred years passed before instruments were used. Chambers Encyclopedia notes, “The organ is said to have been introduced into church music by Pope Vitalian in 666 ad.” Allahu Akbar.

[@bobbyrice2858]

I personally don’t like secular mimicked worship music. I prefer voice only hymnal or hymnal with classical instrumentation. No drums.

[@TheCreepypro]

may we worship you Lord in an honest manner let us not enjoy your music apart from you