Todays youts know how to ruin Christian music

[Bob Riebe]

I am listening to WROJ  a low powered Christian station , for the first time, and most of the songs are talking with a instrumental back ground, they totally destroyed Silent Night and most of the songs the singers sound so miserable, reminds me of the --  we're not worthy scene --  from Wayne's World if I met them face to face I tell them if you are that miserable there must be a Roman Catholic monastary some where, where you can lock your self up and writhe in misery in your own crap.

There is NO JOY in the way they sing, as I said , they take songs of joy a crap on them.

We are not worthy of God's Grace but we should REJOICE in his gift not piss and moan how unworthy we are.
I have heard old time , tone deaf , choirs sing Christmas music, not well, but the joy of God's gift is still there.

[powderman]

BOB. Not just Christmas music. The literally butcher the beautiful old time gospel music too. A group sand their butchered version of ThE Ol Rugged Cross. I promise you there IS NO oooey  yooooeeyy yaya in that song, it disgusted me. A Christian song is actuall written as a prayer to God. NOBODY has the right to change words or the way it is delivered. I heard AMAZING Grace butchered at a funeral of all places. CHARLIE. 

[BUGEYE]

BOB. Not just Christmas music. The literally butcher the beautiful old time gospel music too. A group sand their butchered version of ThE Ol Rugged Cross. I promise you there IS NO oooey  yooooeeyy yaya in that song, it disgusted me. A Christian song is actuall written as a prayer to God. NOBODY has the right to change words or the way it is delivered. I heard AMAZING Grace butchered at a funeral of all places. CHARLIE. 

You're right Charlie, they butcher the old Gospel songs.

And, at my Church (which I love) they seldom sing the old songs any more.
They sing 7-11 songs.  sing seven words, repeat eleven times.
I don't like it.

[ironglows]

  That is a sad situation.  I wonder why they insist on destroying another's work, instead of writing new music to their liking.
  If they write their own, then we could all just ignore it !  As it stands, if they want to vandalize the old hymns, they should at least, include a warning label !

[powderman]

An old farm couple got ready for Church and the wife said she was staying home feeling poorly. He said, I think I'll try that new Church on the edge of town.
When he got home she asked, how was it?? He said, different, real different.
She asked, what hymns did they sing?? He said, wasn't none, they called it praise music, WHATS THAT she asks??
He said, if I come home and tell you the cows is in the corn, that there is a hymn. BUT, I f I say MARTHA MARTHA MARTH, the cows is in the corn corn corn corn, the brown brown cows, the black black cows, They're in the corn corn corn they are in the corn corn corn.
Then They get to swaying back and forth back and forth and repeat it all a dz times. That there is praise music.

CHARLIE. 

[Dee]

I love, and used to sing the old southern gospel songs at church. All of the gospel songs that I have written and sang at churches are southern gospel, and usually scriptural in context.
This 7/11 so called Christian music is at more at emotional in nature, seldom involving scriptural references.

[BUGEYE]

An old farm couple got ready for Church and the wife said she was staying home feeling poorly. He said, I think I'll try that new Church on the edge of town.
When he got home she asked, how was it?? He said, different, real different.
She asked, what hymns did they sing?? He said, wasn't none, they called it praise music, WHATS THAT she asks??
He said, if I come home and tell you the cows is in the corn, that there is a hymn. BUT, I f I say MARTHA MARTHA MARTH, the cows is in the corn corn corn corn, the brown brown cows, the black black cows, They're in the corn corn corn they are in the corn corn corn.
Then They get to swaying back and forth back and forth and repeat it all a dz times. That there is praise music.

CHARLIE. 

LOL, I gotta show Nancy this post.

[teamnelson]

Well I've got two "youts" that are musically gifted and have led worship in churches, and they like the hymns and sing with joy, so all is not lost friends!

Anecdotally, seems like millennials had to deconstruct everything to make it their own, while the centennials want what their grandparents had ... a father, a Father, and a country. So go find a centennial and pour into them - there's hope.

[ironglows]

Frankly, more of the "praise" type music is sung in my church, than the old hymns.  I don't really care for it, but it does bring in, not just the "youts", but others who were brought up in the rock generation. Many who are pot bellied, gray haired and balding.
  It also includes a helping of "youts"..

  I think of it as 7-11 music..7 lines, repeated 11 times !  ...But it does bring in that section of the population, who may not otherwise come to church.
  Plus I must keep in mind, the church is not just about "me"! I settled my salvation years ago, and as I have often said here, i am not a "music person".

  Now to reach those in this community who are unaware of their creator and His plan !

[Bob Riebe]

Charlie's story put it the level of toleration I can muster, but not much more.