I don't mind. I trust everyone on my friends list to respond appropriately to faith posts, I just didn't want anyone trolling for an argument to decide to pick one in my journal.
It would not be hard to reformat things, IMO. Quite simply, officers need to prepare every service within the template of approaching, talking to, listening to, and responding to God. (That's the basic format for all liturgy, though obviously many churches couch it in different terms. When you get down to brass tacks, though, that's what they're all doing.) Within that template, every single item needs to have a purpose. Go ahead and have the "praise and worship team" sing (though for heaven's sake, rename it!) But decide what they will sing based on the role of the song in the service. If they're singing during the response time, it should be a prayer chorus. If they're singing during the approach time, it should be a praise chorus. And so on.
Also, the music sections cannot be as autonomous as they have become. They lose their connection with the service when they're that separate. The officer needs to provide an overview of themes for services several months in advance, including hymns that he is considering using, so that the music sections can prepare items that mesh and enhance the theme, rather than competing with it. When everyone's doing their own thing, no one is doing God's thing, and everyone loses.
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Date: 2005-04-25 11:49 pm (UTC)It would not be hard to reformat things, IMO. Quite simply, officers need to prepare every service within the template of approaching, talking to, listening to, and responding to God. (That's the basic format for all liturgy, though obviously many churches couch it in different terms. When you get down to brass tacks, though, that's what they're all doing.) Within that template, every single item needs to have a purpose. Go ahead and have the "praise and worship team" sing (though for heaven's sake, rename it!) But decide what they will sing based on the role of the song in the service. If they're singing during the response time, it should be a prayer chorus. If they're singing during the approach time, it should be a praise chorus. And so on.
Also, the music sections cannot be as autonomous as they have become. They lose their connection with the service when they're that separate. The officer needs to provide an overview of themes for services several months in advance, including hymns that he is considering using, so that the music sections can prepare items that mesh and enhance the theme, rather than competing with it. When everyone's doing their own thing, no one is doing God's thing, and everyone loses.