Is Christian Rock Sunday Still Every Christian's Choice


The electric amplified guitar service apparently is the fastest growing type of worship service. In between "the play list" are brief comments by preachers. According to commenters the comments focus on self-help themes. The link advocates leaving churches like this, even if it is the church has been part of your family for generations. Just say goodbye, he writes.

Professor Roger Olson who blogs a lot recently retired and moved from Texas to another state in the South. He was looking for a church he and his wife could enjoy. They wanted the kind of service they were familiar with. Church after church held the new concert style service and it took him a while to find his preferred church. Eventually, he did.

It's ironic the church I occasionally is part of the liberal wing, the United Church of Christ. Even though the service does not include the Apostle's Creed, it is "traditional" with reading some scripture, Hymes, prayers and a sermon. It would be logical is "Bible" churches would have the traditional service and the semi secular would have to rock style. But, it's the opposite.

One thing seems certain, the concert style church service will move further from the Bible. Perhaps it will be treated like Joel Osteen. He holds a Bible high at the beginning of his sermons. That is often the last reference to it. 

The concert style surely is a product of market demand. If this is the style those in the pews prefer that is what will be presented. To say the faith never changes is to ignore reality.

As an outsider, I can't find anything wrong with either the rock concert kind of service or the traditional. Either would be OK if only there was an admission that which is taught came to being because of cultures that happened to exist at the right time.  

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  1. little helperFebruary 5, 2022 at 1:06 PM

    Every? Seriously?

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  2. Jon LindgrenFebruary 9, 2022 at 7:41 PM

    helper-- I'd like your reaction to this: I was on the Evangelical Covenant Church site reading the "What we believe" page. It something like this about the Apostle's Creed, "The Apostle's Creed summarizes the beliefs of the Evangelical Covenant Church." But then it added a qualifier, " subject to review of scripture." Does the Lutheran Missouri Synod have such a qualifier or disclaimer?

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