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News Item5/12/11 2:14 AM
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As these Christians are persecuted they show Christ's love to others and even more hear the gospel. The church is growing very quickly in China. We must pray for them and all who come in contact with them - friend or foe.

News Item5/12/11 2:09 AM
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We should also pray for the moslems that they might meet Jesus Christ and be converted. It is the only way to bring peace to the region.

News Item4/17/11 3:11 AM
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Please don't buy copies of this book. That would only support and encourage this rubbish.

News Item3/31/11 5:45 PM
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Former Rocker,
I had no idea that you had that meaning in mind when you chose your title.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree in Christian love.
God bless you in your Christian life

News Item3/31/11 3:37 PM
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Rocker
Which style of music do you prefer?
I am not a new Christian and my preference is the classical style, but in traveling around the world I have come to realize that Christians from diverse backgrounds prefer diverse styles. If God had defined what he prefers we would have no difficulty. but he hasn't. "Make a joyful noise" to me refers to some forms of Christian music, but if it is praising God, who are we to argue?
You may have a problem with this style from your pre-christian days. If so then avoid it,
but for some it is their style in which to praise God. Must everyone conform to my selection of appropriate sounds in which to praise God. I'm not talking of reaching the unreached - that is done via the Word.

News Item3/31/11 12:16 AM
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Rocker,
Your experience is yours. Other Christians have written and sing even the psalms to rock music. They are worshipping God in the way they feel comfortable with. If anyone could demonstrate that God has written that this music score is okay and that one is not I would reconsider but to my knowledge people have only shown their individual preferences and then say that is what God wants. Christian music did not start with the folk/classical music that most western Christians sing to psalms and hymns these days.
God has written that we should make a joyful noise, that we should praise him with all kinds of instruments and that we should sing to each other psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. God himself sings over us with joy. In heaven we will praise him in song and with harps. But we are nowhere told what tune to use.

News Item3/30/11 6:50 PM
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Rocker,
Is this the question you are referring to?
"Who are You trying to please? God or your flesh? The Lord or ungodly reprobates?"

In following the pattern for worship in Heaven I think you could say I'm aiming to please God. He has told us to sing throughout the Bible. Many believers are recorded as singing words other than the psalms, in scripture. We are told in the psalms to use instruments to sing praise.
Nowhere to my knowledge are we given the music we are to use. People have used the heart music of their culture where we have records. So if your culture is one of rap, country and western, Turkish lament, classical European or African drums that is the music you ought to use. God wants to hear us sing his praise from a joyful heart. Not argue over what you or I like best. God has not to my knowledge given us his preference for the score.


News Item3/30/11 6:19 PM
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Rob Ulster,
I agree with you:-

"And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.”
Above we have true spiritual, perfect, sinless worship in Heaven, they are not singing from the pslater, they are playing music!
How dare men say that this sort of worship is false on earth, when it is perfect in Heaven!!

We on earth pattern our worship on heavenly worship, and join with those gone before to Heaven when we praise God for all he has done.


News Item3/30/11 12:49 AM
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As I wrote before:-
"the flute was used in Alexandria to accompany hymns at the love feasts of the early Christians up to AD190, when Clement of Alexandria introduced the harp in its place" from "The Temple" by Alfred Edersheim. He Also refers to the hymns sung in the synagogues.

Jesus and the disciples worshipped in the synagogues but there is no reference to the banning of music or instruments in scripture. I am sure they did not use the classical hymn music of today but music from their culture that they could feel comfortable in using to sing praises unto God.

The disciples sang, God sings and scripture tells us to sing His praise. No where to my knowledge are we or OT believers ever told we must only sing psalms and then only use a particular form of music. Please Chapter and verse if I am wrong.


News Item3/29/11 6:35 AM
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None of you are giving evidence from scripture. I have read articles that contradict these quotes you give on music in the early church. I would like to see someone point to God's Word itself. I see God encouraging us to sing and to use instruments and to write new songs of praise.

News Item3/28/11 4:49 AM
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I'm asking because I cannot see how the position of no instruments in worship can possibly be justified by scripture. I am hoping someone can explain their position from scripture not from what someone else has stated as fact without scriptural proof.
I'm similarly puzzled by folk saying one can only sing psalms (not the actual words as found in scripture but a changed version) when even in scripture there are instances of other words being sung.
Rap being a form of singing that does not need instruments and has very little tune seems to fit the bill perfectly for those of these persuasions, but it is vehemently spoken against.

News Item3/27/11 8:57 PM
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And ps150 says
"Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with the psaltry and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." etc

Many of the instruments mentioned in this psalm and others were not in the temple worship, so please can someone explain to me how this should be interpreted, if we are not use music or instruments in our worship.


News Item3/23/11 5:40 PM
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So singing the song of Moses or the songs written in Revelation is a sin because they are not psalms. The Jews sang songs other than the psalms. Some are recorded in Scripture. The early Church sang songs other than psalms and some are recorded in Scripture and some are found in our hymnals. Prove from Scripture that we must sing only psalms.
This is supposed to be on the music we use and nobody has shown from Scripture that God is in way upset by the music we use as long as it is in the Spirit from a Christian heart.

News Item3/22/11 10:57 PM
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Someone wrote that instruments were not used in worship until reformation.
"the flute was used in Alexandria to accompany hymns at the love feasts of the early Christians up to AD190, when Clement of Alexandria introduced the harp in its place" from "The Temple" by Alfred Edersheim. He Also refers to the hymns sung in the synagogues.
Jesus and the disciples worshipped in the synagogues but there is no reference to the banning of music or instruments in scripture. I am sure they did not use the classical hymn music of today but music from their culture that they could feel comfortable in using to sing praises unto God

The following comes from the Hymnal on Sermon audio.
"The hymn "Be Thou My Vision" is a prayer that may accept Christ as our pattern, our hero, our ideal. Our adoration is told in these names and phrases: Lord of my heart, my best thought, my wisdom, my true word, my great Father, mine inheritance, my treasure and finally, heart of my own heart.

The original version of this hymn was written by an unknown Irish Christian in the eighth century. The tune is an Irish folk melody."

Hymn tunes are often folk music of their day and date prior to the reformation.


News Item3/22/11 3:22 PM
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Are we not all priests and thus we should all be entitled to use instruments, if that is the criteria.
But ps 150 tells us to all praise him with any and all types of musical instruments.
I am also very interested to know if anyone can show from scripture what music we should use. Surely we should use the heart music we know - be it classical, folk, rock or rap.

News Item3/22/11 3:07 AM
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How can you read ps150 and say instruments should not be used in worship?

News Item3/20/11 9:52 PM
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Who are we trying to satisfy in our worship? Is the European form of music and worship the only acceptable one? The first Christians were not European and many many Christians in the world are not European. Why are they not permitted to worship God in a way acceptable to their culture - be it rap, rock, psalms,r asian 5 note scale or classical.

News Item3/20/11 12:09 AM
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The psalms regularly tell to sing praises. Several passages speak of people singing. Even Jesus is recorded as singing. Where do the no music crowd find their justification for their stand?

The early church sang hymns - not just psalms. Some are recorded in the letters. Others are found in our hymn books.

If God dislikes singing so much why does Zephaniah tell us "He(God) will joy over thee with singing" Z 3:17. We're not told what tune or style He'll use but He is singing.


News Item3/17/11 7:06 AM
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How many of our hymn tunes were originally folk music or pub tunes. Not the words mind you, but the music. Even psalm only singers use some of these tunes.

News Item3/13/11 4:27 AM
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Oh dear, it looks like we'll all be sitting in the open air with no seats or music or even pulpits.
What is this paranoia with music? Must we all sing only western music, and psalms - not even the other songs recorded in the OT and NT. We do not have the original music of the psalms so we can't sing it. Other nations have music traditions that those Christians should be at liberty to use.
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