Why do some Protestants put on rock concerts?

[George]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

I am not sure but I think it has to do with appealing to people aged below 40. Probably mainly people aged below 25 or so. Rock music with a religious cast is believed by some to be attractive to teens and early twenties. I am not sure that it works out quite as the advocates wish it would ...

 

[George]

I removed the prefix from the topic, but keep the discussion respectful.

 

[Full O Beans]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

How it looks is most always misinterpreted. Worship of God is the most important thing, as He gets the glory and honour. Music is created to bring God glory. We use it to do just that.

https://youtu.be/JoC1ec-lYps

 

[Brighten04]

I removed the prefix from the topic, but keep the discussion respectful.

I was wondering why you locked protestants out of a question only we could answer.

 

[Alithis]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

good question..
though i dont expressly consider singing songs in a cogragated manner to be worship.its a patt expression ..but worship is so much more.

its an attempt to appeal to secular youth..under 25s
and churched youth.

it doesnt work..its carnal.fights flesh with flesh.makes luke warm christians who lose faith
when things are not fun or hyped.
it does not produce deciples of the lord jesus.

 

[Brighten04]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

Sometimes they are concerts, but they are praise and worship services where we worship the Lord in song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLzX3rpbfSA

 

[Brighten04]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7l8SrZtiuA

 

[tango]

How it looks is most always misinterpreted. Worship of God is the most important thing, as He gets the glory and honour. Music is created to bring God glory. We use it to do just that.

Don't care for Jesus Culture myself. I've seen a few of their performances and struggle to see much of God in them.

 

[Full O Beans]

Don't care for Jesus Culture myself. I've seen a few of their performances and struggle to see much of God in them.

They are anointed. I see the love for Jesus there.

 

[tango]

I'm talking about the church services to where it looks more like a rock concert rather than a worship service.

I suppose the question would be which aspects of the "rock concert" you are referring to.

Some people find the use of drums to be unacceptable, although I struggle to see anything wrong with individual instruments. If you're talking about the kind of church services where you can walk outside and think you were standing outside a nightclub, the chances are that sort of thing is an attempt to appeal to young people.

Sometime I think it's good to make it clear that Christianity isn't about following endless requirements that begin "Thou shalt not". If you talk to some people you'd think that Christians aren't allowed to have a beer, smoke a cigarette, listen to music unless it's played on a pipe organ at a tempo sufficiently slow you fear you'd die of boredom before the end of it and so on. It doesn't hurt to make it clear that Christians can have fun.

Holding a service that uses contemporary music is just about a bit of variety. You can sing hymns accompanied by a band, or more contemporary songs, or whatever else.

I remember the very last service I went to at one particular church where they played a video from Bethel church. The music was relentlessly repetitive and seemed loud for the sake of being loud. I got absolutely no sense it was anything other than a gig, some young woman was writhing and screaming into the microphone and the whole thing seemed to be a "look at us" performance. After 10 minutes I walked out and haven't been back to the church since. It wasn't just that one video that pushed me away, the church had taken to playing videos from IHOP in Kansas City that also feature relentlessly repetitive music (I'm talking about singing the same line or two of a song for anything up to 10 minutes at a time, and if anyone is wondering I did time it because I wondered just how long they'd keep it up).

So I guess there's good and bad about things that might look like a rock concert. Was there something specific about it that troubles you?

 

[tango]

They are anointed. I see the love for Jesus there.

Many people use that term "anointed", can you explain how they are anointed? I don't think they are anointed at all.

 

[Full O Beans]

Holy Spirit pours His presence and power upon His people and gifts people with great ability to create music that elicits worship of God in people's hearts. The result us that the presence of God comes into such a gathering. He says He inhabits our praise. I experience this every time I worship God in song at my own church.

 

[Alithis]

the OP is a good question
though i don't expressly consider singing songs in a congregated manner to be worship. its a part expression of it ..but worship is so much more.

it (the musics lights stage and show ) is an attempt to appeal to secular youth..under 25s
and churched youth.

it doesnt work..its carnal.fights flesh with flesh.makes lukewarm christians who lose faith
when things are not fun or hyped.
it does not produce deciples of the lord jesus.
it does produce too many who evaluate thier spiritual stage by what they are "feeling " .. rather then what the word of God says ..
BUT ..it is the case in every setting where the heart lacks sincerity toward God -because the hearts that is sincere in seeking to know god more will always find God more ..that is , to get to know him more .

i once thought ( for a very long time ) that a feeling of euphoria experienced during certain prolonged times of song and praise was the highlight of christian experience ... and i would also be seeking that next highlight
that is - until i discovered the inexpressible joy of seeing a person healed or touched by the lord when praying for them.

and then discovered the Joy of sharing the Gospel to a heart willing to hear it .. That has become my worship for our sacrificial service is "ACCEPTABLE " worship .

 

[MoreCoffee]

Some pop concerts border on the absurd, consider this video taken from a charismatic/pentecostal/new-apostolic meeting.

 

[TurtleHare]

Rock concerts stir the emotions and when done in church people want to believe that it is the Holy Spirit yet in other rock concerts you can see that same emotional effect take place. It's all about feeling good right? Of course worship can be quiet and somber and God is present but some people think that the flashier the better and the bigger crowd will attend.

 

[psalms 91]

Doesnt satan mirror that which God does? It is not a strange thing that another spirit mimics the Holy Spirit

 

[Josiah]

I don't think musical styles have anything to do with anything.

 

[psalms 91]

Nope it is the peoples hearts and the presence of the spirit

 

[Brighten04]

If someone does not like a particular expression of music, one does not have to listen. We can still exercise free will. Some people like organ music. I don't. But if I go to a church and they use organ music, I am not going to complain about it. There are different styles of music. Some styles I like, some I can barely stand to listen to. But just because I don't like it, it does not mean that our Father does not love it. He made us all different for a reason. I don't like rap music, but sometimes my son will insist (while laughing at me) that I hear certain songs. I have to admit, there are strong messages in some rap songs. I just don't care for the style.