Steve, I do know that to be true, not the Wesleyans, which I must research now for sure, but there is a simply beautiful, beautiful little chorus we used to sing in rounds and go into heavenly harmonies with, its the Praise God from whom all blessing flow, praise Him all creatures here below, praise Him above ye heavenly hosts, praise FAther, Son, and Holy Ghost. I was with some pretty right-on Adventists keeping the Sabbath for awhile, and loving it, and I mentioned to this precious man of god pastor that the refrain we sang in his church was not nearly as pretty as , and I sang the beautiful one, and he was not impressed, and quickly told me that THAT melody was taken from an Austrialian drinking song. I just said, oh,....o.k......, although I did not believe it to be true. So it does happen.
Just look at the core of what I said and maybe God will show you things down the road IF they begin to drift off the path. Let's agree that to this point all music is still ON THE PATH, but in the future, it might DRIFT OFF THE PATH. Can we agree on that?
Again, may I weakly whisper for the last time, I said drums, drums and booping bass guitar rifts in the house of god. I did not say beautiful instruments that could make a melody of any kind. My question: why can't we give up the beat? Are we addicted to it?
Now that's interesting. |