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Post by meghan on Mar 5, 2008 19:07:46 GMT -8
maybe this has been done before, but I thought I'd try anyway.
What music makes you feel close to God? I was listening to the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir last night, an old CD that was played a lot in my family during my teen years. My mom's a singer, and we both have a love for choral-type music.
There's a band called mewithoutYou that whenever I listen to them, i feel like it's a little private church service.
And Switchfoot always makes me contemplate where I am with God and what I'm doing with my life in service to Him.
Anybody else? I'm thinking I already know what Josh is going to say.
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Post by Josh on Mar 6, 2008 14:51:44 GMT -8
I'm curious what you think I would say....
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Post by meghan on Mar 6, 2008 21:46:43 GMT -8
uh. well i went to a concert in december....
so i'm going to guess Lost Dogs, and then some sort of mixture or something of those guys. The 77s? Swirling Eddies (I don't know.. are they related? I think I'm confusing myself now).
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Post by Josh on Mar 8, 2008 15:35:18 GMT -8
Ha ha. That's exactly what I was hoping you'd do ;D
Well, I could list my favorite bands, but since I've done that before, I guess I'd just say that for me usually the most "worshipful" music is music that I feel is "honest". I'm not laying any hard and fast rules on how to judge that- this is all very subjective.
For me, I don't tend to find a lot of stuff on Christian radio stations very appealing and I'm not super into the "praise and worship music phenomenon*" because I feel it tends to be a bit one sided. What I mean by that is I feel like in those mediums/ genres that there is perhaps too much of a focus on certain emotive themes (positive, uplifting, simple, basic gospel message, etc..) while other themes (such as suffering, grief, sadness, honesty, deeper theological and philosophical themes, humor, wit, irony, sarcasm, intricate beauty, musical excellence) get lost in the shuffle.
I also like "story songs" and other songs written from the 3rd person.
All of this one reason why I like the Psalms. There you have worship through prayer and music that has all the above features. I'd like music in the Church to cover more of the spectrum of human experience, emotion, and expression toward God.
So, I guess if I had to sum it up for me, I'd say "music that is true, noble, excellent, praiseworthy" (Phil. 4:8-ish) and that covers a wide variety of human experience, whether composed by Christians or not.
* one thing that bugs me about that term is that it sort of implies (unintentionally, hopefully) that what came before or doesn't fit into the genre is somehow not really worship.
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