Use of the word "contemporary"

[Greg Jones]

Have any of you ever noticed that churches that already have firm
contemporary worship in place and are not fighting the worship wars
(Mega churches & cutting edge churches are clear examples) don't even
use the word "contemporary" in their vocabulary?

If you have noticed this, I simply ask why do you think that is?

Greg

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[Bruce Kunkle]

It has become the new standard and therefore, unnecessary.  I have an HDTV, but I don't call it my HDTV; it's just my TV.  All the recorded music is now in stereo but we don't talk about stereo CDs or MP3s.  They're just CDs and MP3s.  We assume they are in stereo; we assume the TV is in high definition and we, if that is what we are used to, assume the worship is contemporary.  Just like 20 years ago the worship was called "worship" (or "singing") not 'traditional worship".

This all implies a permanence.  If we don't call it "contemporary worship" then that is because there is no need to distinguish between it and something else because we're never going back to the something else.  But if you can't bring yourself to admit that, then you will feel a need to make a distinction.
 
Bruce
www.contemporaryworship.net

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[Bob Marshall]

I think you answered the question yourself when you used the word "firm".
They are confident in their approach and don't find it necessary to label or
categorize or advertise that approach. To them the only word that is
important is "worship". They don't need to add any adjectives to it to
justify it or define it or specify it. That's just the way they do things,
and nothing more needs to be said.

Bob Marshall
Cool, CA

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[trit...@cox.net]

So, Bruce, does that mean you're going to change the name of your web site, or are you making a distinction with worship.net? :-)

This has been an interesting discussion. Lots of thoughts shared.

Fortunately, I think we can all agree on one thing at least - there are only 2 kinds of music that God never listens to:

Country ...



... and Western.

</joke>

Mike

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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Greg Jones <gr...@gregjonesmusic.com> wrote:
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> > Have any of you ever noticed that churches that already have firm
> > contemporary worship in place and are not fighting the worship wars (Mega
> > churches & cutting edge churches are clear examples) don't even use the
> > word "contemporary" in their vocabulary?
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> > If you have noticed this, I simply ask why do you think that is?
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[Keith Mahay]

Contemporary has been used for such a wide variety of worship styles that it has become essentially useless to concretely define anything.  Everyone who wants to stake a claim on the church going public states, as a badge of honor, that they have contemporary worship.  I suppose if one means that the worship is happening now and not a hundred years ago that might be true.  Meanwhile the true cultural diversity of the current church is getting more expression by congregations that reach inside their collective interests and begin to express music that orients toward Christ as a product of their experience and culture somewhat like the vineyard music of the late 80's or early 90's though I hesitate to subject any group or period to the idolatry of being the epitome of what worship should be.

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