I would love to rock out at a metal show every Sunday, but that isn't what I go to church for. I go for Word and Sacrament. Every tradition was once new, so there's nothing intrinsically wrong with contemporary services -- but the music isn't actually that good, the desperate pandering is off-putting, and the churches that attempt this pandering have the lowest possible views on the sacrament.
Well said, Hannah. Perhaps rock-band services provide temporal satisfaction, but they simply cannot compare to the holy liturgy in which the Word is preached and the life-giving Sacraments are administered. Thanks be to God!
I would love to rock out at a metal show every Sunday, but that isn't what I go to church for. I go for Word and Sacrament. Every tradition was once new, so there's nothing intrinsically wrong with contemporary services -- but the music isn't actually that good, the desperate pandering is off-putting, and the churches that attempt this pandering have the lowest possible views on the sacrament.
Well said, Hannah. Perhaps rock-band services provide temporal satisfaction, but they simply cannot compare to the holy liturgy in which the Word is preached and the life-giving Sacraments are administered. Thanks be to God!