modern vs. traditional
I am a sucker for traditional church services. i know i dont seem like it, but i really am.
I love hymns.
I love the thought of a hymnal.
I love kneeling and being served communion.
I like choir robes.
I like traditional.
Each Christmas Eve Chad and I go to a super traditional Catholic church for midnight mass. I love it. i look forward to it. it is a change up from what i am used to. i go to a very “modern” and progressive church. We have not only 1, but 2 electric guitars on stage (gasp!), loud music and moving lights…the almost opposite of traditional.
But i think i like the reverence and balance that traditional brings to my church culture.
I grew up in a very fundamentalist church environment. After years of feeling uncomfortable w/ the contemporary style, I actually can say I absolutely love both! My heart for music encourages me to worship freely in both. I love the messages of the old hymns & the praise offered in the new worship music. Plus,I grew up in a non-instrumental church! Learning to get past the instruments & really worship was a task. But, now I feel so free; so in love w/ God, that I can worship anywhere! Sometimes, I do think our children need to understand 'holy reverance'. One thing I truly miss is an old-fashioned 'Dinner on the Grounds'! Yum!
I think it's all good, as long as it's genuine and not routine/rote. That problem is not unique to traditional or modern or anything really. The other issue is when tradition or "new" starts to have the same authority as scripture.
I love all types… the variety is part of the fun of this whole thing.
I'm more of a double electric guitar kinda guy. I love to rock-it-out during worship
I did NOT see that coming… WOW.
Me? I love having a modern service, though I do enjoy the occasional redone hymnal!
I think it gets easy to overlook the Holiness of God if you totally exclude reverence and tradition. If you study church history, you find a lot of "traditions" are rooted in being awestruck of God and His salvation….in my case I can worship either way, because of what I DO know and understand. I know how in just 1 generation how much can be lost.
Hi! I've just come over from Tam's blog…
My answer: Neither lololol
I meet with other parts of the body in our homes and endeavour (Sorry, Caribbean ppl use English spelling ! lol) to share life together. Other house churches around us have more contemporary styles, but the one I call home (figuratively and literally at times too) doesn't sing together and worship as much as you would do in a 'traditional' setting…'Traditional' in my book lumps both 'hymnal' and 'contemporary' together – coz we're 'out there' to the majority of the believers… *Grin*