[Dialogue] Contemporary Worship Service

[KarenBueno@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/8/2005 9:29:42 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
VEatSWPA at aol.com writes:
however, the contemporary service is not very 
contemporary except the loud instrumentation. The content of the music and 
rituals is traditional or evangelical in nature.
from Karen Bueno:
I find the same dynamic at my local United Methodist church.  Apparently 
there is a large body of music which is being/has been written.  I think Promise 
Keepers and the "Christian" radio stations must be popularizing it, as well as 
others, I suppose.  But the theology has no relation to that which I would 
pray was "contemporary".  

I wonder if anyone is writing and distributing any music which uses the 
Christian language in a new way.  Our movement songs were mainly secular in text.  
Our use of "old" Christian hymns were in the context of reinterpreting the 
language.  

Some of the newer hymns in the United Methodist "The Faith We Sing" are quite 
good, but I doubt that they are being widely used.

Is there hope for the church, or must we still be in the mode of "doing an 
end run"?

Karen Bueno, in Thornton, Colorado