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I haven’t been to Church in years and I’m not religious, but I still think that they should stick to the classicals. I can understand it fitting into the new buildings which are purposefully made to be modern and good for that sort of thing, but I couldn’t for example imagine see a band playing in our Abbey, one of the oldest buildings in England.

i think most modern churches have gotten completely away from the point of church (to worship one’s god….)

i hate churches who have live pop-sounding bands play every week. i think there should be holy, classical sounding music that helps people focus, not some pop band that distracts people from worship. when i hear live contemporary bands in church i take it as a sign it is not a serious church and everyone in it is a hypocrite.

(disclaimer: i am not a religious person and i don’t believe in god, but i make an appearance in a church from time to time depending on the faith of who i’m dating….)

i don’t goto church because i’m not religious or a belliever BUT
i went when i was a little girl and let me tell youy those organs and piano’s bored the sh!t outta me i’d much rather here a band to wake me up

I suppose it also depends on the general atmosphere of the church as well, and the age group of the sort of people who go there, if there’s much interest in that and, most importantly, if there’s a classical option nearby.

I still get the image of a old man dressing up in nike trainers and a backwards cap trying to be ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ to get people to like him when I see this idea.

sjpancer wrote:
i think most modern churches have gotten completely away from the point of church (to worship one’s god….)i hate churches who have live pop-sounding bands play every week. i think there should be holy, classical sounding music that helps people focus, not some pop band that distracts people from worship. when i hear live contemporary bands in church i take it as a sign it is not a serious church and everyone in it is a hypocrite. (disclaimer: i am not a religious person and i don’t believe in god, but i make an appearance in a church from time to time depending on the faith of who i’m dating….)

sjpancer “everyone is a Hypocrite”Unless you are attending on a regular basis you really can’t know what is going on in church. Zack I understand where you are coming from basically you enjoy the classical music.  Try to look at it this way everyone worships differently so we all listen to different music.  I myself enjoy all kinds of music.  As far as organ music I think it is very beautiful but most kids at our church wouldn’t enjoy that at all.  To reach the people churches have to change by having variety.  Our church has all different kinds of music from piano to southern gospel to contemporary.Remember Christ came to where the people where.  I do however think we should be very careful not to take away from our Lord and Savior.

classicals are nice, but i sometimes think that they get rather dreary. i’m not religious, but i do go to church when i go with my family, and the some of the “joyous” classical church songs need to look up the definition of that adjective again. :)

i dont understand it either. it seems to me like people cant just stop with commercializing easter and christmas, now they have to commercialize every sunday mass as well. it seems like everythings centering itself on cash nowadays, even church! there should be an eleventh commandment; “Thou shalt not exploit the lord to make money”.

societies evolve. sorry.