Comments on: Music: help or hindrance in worship? http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/music-help-or-hindrance-in-worship/ Walking in the freedom and simplicity of God's love! Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Custom or Command? Christian Worship & Hebrews 10:25 : The Thin Edge http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/music-help-or-hindrance-in-worship/#comment-482 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:29:31 +0000 http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/i-can-only-imagine-music-as-help-or-hindrance/#comment-482 [...] Music: help or hindrance in worship? [...]

]]> By: Bill Lollar http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/music-help-or-hindrance-in-worship/#comment-481 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:10:45 +0000 http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/i-can-only-imagine-music-as-help-or-hindrance/#comment-481 Derrick: It seems you missed the entire point of my article and assumed that I have jettisoned truth in exchange for a contemporary Christian song; as if I preferred one over the other. Actually, if God had not established His truth and His Spirit in my heart, then I would have had no response at all to the words of the song, “I Can Only Imagine.” It was the words, primarily, that reminded me of the awesome, unimaginable, indescribably blessings that await those who trust in Christ alone for their redemption. The song writer simply expresses the finite limits of his imagination when it comes to such themes.

I don’t know your background, but it almost sounds like you’re into exclusive psalmody: a minority position among Reformed evangelicals based on a strict adherence to the “regulative principle of worship. Is that where you’re coming from?

]]> By: Derrick http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/music-help-or-hindrance-in-worship/#comment-480 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:13:02 +0000 http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/i-can-only-imagine-music-as-help-or-hindrance/#comment-480 What was it that this song did for you that the simple fact that Jesus died on the cross for our sins could not do?

Could that simple truth alone not derive such emotion?

Would this still have happened if the musical instruments had not been present?

What did the adding of the musical instruments do to create these emotions?

There’s nothing that we can add, which was not commanded to make the great truth any more powerful…
Just some thoughts to ponder for a while.

]]> By: The Thin Edge - Is our worship too dependent upon technology? http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/music-help-or-hindrance-in-worship/#comment-479 Sat, 03 May 2008 10:42:18 +0000 http://thin-edge.org/2007/09/25/i-can-only-imagine-music-as-help-or-hindrance/#comment-479 [...] Music: help or hindrance in worship? [...]

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