Contemporary and Traditional

I was sitting here reading a couple more pages from Unceasing Worship.  It seems to be one of those books you can only read a bit at a time, so that you can digest and wrestle with the ideas presented.  Anyway, as I was reading, I had an ADD moment.  I think it’s sad that Pastor Flack, the video guy, the sound guy and I are the only ones that get to worship in both the traditional and contemporary services.  I think it’s such a shame that so many members of our congregation are missing out.  Of course, for me, the traditional service is where I’m confronted by new music with new melodies and new thoughts in lyrics.  I mean really, here at 8:00 every Sunday, we sing the great (and sometimes not so great) hymns of old.  The senior saints gather with a couple of younger folks and we sing together from a foundation a century old.  There’s something nice about that.  There’s a bringing together of sorts.  Then there’s the "contemporary" service for second and third hours.  Oh how I wish that the senior saints could worship with us in the third hour.  A group of people largely consisting of college age and young professionals packs into the sanctuary and sings a new song to the Lord.  We sing old songs too, but sometimes in a new way. ;-)  But what I think is the best part of the third service is the volume level.  Not that singing louder is more spiritual, there are just more people in the space!  It’s cool to be in a room with the next generation (of which I’m slightly a part of) that is sold out for the Lord.  Not sure how to facilitate this (space problems), but some time we need to have one service for the entire congregati12pt;">be the body of Christ.  We need to introduce the hand to the foot, the fingers to the toes!  We need to realize that worshiping Christ is not about meon.  We need to sing out the hymns of old alongside the new songs of this generation.  We need to , it’s about us.