Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Market-driven music undermines church


If you visit a ‘typical’ Sydney Anglican church you should expect to see a variety of different styles of music over the course of a day.

At my church, our 8am service kicks the day off with organ music and traditional hymns. Our 10am service has a band which includes drums and guitar, and sings contemporary Christian music as produced by Emu Music, Sovereign Grace, and so forth. Our 6pm evening service is quite similar to the 10am service, but as our youth group grows and develops, it’s likely that it will be louder and more ‘edgy’ that the family session at 10am.

The problem with this approach is that there is a wide range of demographics present at several of the service times. Our 10am service has babies through to great-grannies. The music tastes are far more varied than the fairly-soft-rock arrangements of our morning-church band.

Imagine if you could split up the church into different venues for the singing time, and then have the same sermon delivered at the same time to all groups of people?


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1 comment:

Fr. Steve said...

Actually, if you have the money, that can be done. There is a hologram projector being sold that will allow the sermon to be projected in both places, no matter which the actual giver of the sermon is in.