Click on the link below and read this very interesting article/blog.
Newsflash! The Key to 20 somethings is not musical style
I love the music at Pantano. I love the hymns I grew up with in the Southern Baptist Church. My mother reminded me just last week that I auditioned for the youth choir by singing the hymn “It is Well”. She also reminded me that I did not do a good job either! (in a way that only a mother from the south can do). I love country, hard rock, techno, industrial, Christian. My IPod has a very eclectic mix. I just love music. Actually, I have been listening to reggae all week on Glen Elliott’s sound dock (Thanks Glen!!) while he has been in the Ukraine. Music connects me to memories and feelings. It takes me to times in my life or even specific places that I was when I heard it. But my worship has to go deeper than just the music.
I have been reviewing the notes and comments from our discussions on Saturday mornings in Sierra Vista. It is interesting to me that I don’t think we have talked a lot about music. We have said that “who” our target group is will drive what type of music we have. We really haven’t talked a lot about the “Worship Service”. There is a reason for that. Purposefully, we have talked about connecting with each other and our neighbors. I believe that music is very important. Please don’t misunderstand this blog. I think all the guys that are up front every Sunday Night are pouring their hearts out for God. But I also believe that it cannot be the basis of our worship. It can’t be the only reason folks are walking in the door of our community in Sierra Vista. Worship, to me, is the person that greets our friends at the door, welcomes them in and connects them to a place where they can grow on their journey to Christ.
Music may be a draw, and it might not be. I am okay with that. It is the “worship” of our community that will keep people growing in Christ.
From my heart.
Hugh,
Thanks for the link. That was an interesting and enlightening blogpost. Imagine anyone–especially the 18-30 crowd–being more interested in Bible teaching and preaching than the style of music.
Okay, I’m a long way from that generation, but other than, perhaps, clothing styles and preferences, I’m thinking we’re not far apart, at all.
I love music, I love singing, and I especially love it at Pantano when we’re all singing our worship to God and it seems as if the angels, themselves, are joining in. But nothing–repeat, *nothing* is more important to me than hearing the Word preached and taught. I really miss the journeys through books in the Bible that we used to take, a couple of times a year. It seems to me that more transformation takes place, through that kind of preaching/teaching.
The fact that 20somethings (and all generations I think) are really interested in a good solid sermon is something I am hearing and reading about more and more. This link is a good example of that.
I agree with you Vicki, those journeys through books of the Bible are important to helping us grow up in Jesus.