The Resolute

Found this one at davidould.net.

His comment sums it up: “Please, let it not be true.”

Or maybe not…

This is great, thanks to Theologica for finding it.

The saga over the use of drums versus synthesized music in church continues.

Proponents of drums argue that they represent a long standing tradition in church music, are less likely to offend older and less churched people (particularly those who grew up in the 1980′s), and doggedly argue that percussion has a biblical basis from passages such at Exodus 15:20 and 2 Samuel 6:5.

Those advocating change bring up the usual comments about older people being too resistant to change, a need to focus on younger people (citing the statistic that 70% of Christians became a Christian before the age of 25) and that new synthesized music is 100% perfect in timing, consistently pure in sound and is never too loud (a very common problem with over zealous old ‘rocker’ drummers). Others note that removing musicians takes away the stumbling block of the performance on stage thereby keeping us focused on the words we are singing.

With congregations split on the issue some mediation will be required. It looks like troubling times ahead for church music leaders. Perhaps the drums could be dusted off once a month or for one song each week to keep the traditionalists happy. Or maybe there’s a bigger issue behind all this…