tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428685.post110558733042756897..comments2023-09-19T07:50:13.308-07:00Comments on Feminary: More on WorshipStasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10864458542635159512noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428685.post-1105656310659359532005-01-13T14:45:00.000-08:002005-01-13T14:45:00.000-08:00Limin, you rock. That is exactly my point!Limin, you rock. That is exactly my point!Stasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10864458542635159512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8428685.post-1105630294093543632005-01-13T07:31:00.000-08:002005-01-13T07:31:00.000-08:00Speaking to the concerns over aesthetic excellence...Speaking to the concerns over aesthetic excellence, while I understand the desire to call all of it good, as long as the person is worshiping God, this becomes a problem for me in a corporate worship environment.<br /><br />I spent two years at a small conservative Christian college. With mandatory chapel thrice weekly, there were ample opportunities for crappy worship. The music was hard to mess up, most of the time, as we still used the old methodist hymnals (when we ventured off into the 'praise chorus of the week' stuff, it got a little dodgy). But there were stilted skits and awkward interpretive dances (no social dancing was allowed at the school, so these moments were especially painful), and altogether strange pseudo-sign language songs. While I realise that compared with God's perfection, we are all stilted and awkward and strange, I don't feel like we did God any favors with our performances. The mediums killed the message.<br /><br />Bad art is a stumbling block for me. And so much of contemporary "Christian art" is just that: bad. To me, the excellence of the music (or whatever) IS the worship. The desire to emulate the perfection of God should drive the artist/worshipper. Aesthetic excellence conjoins the body of believers in one experience of worship. "Good" worship allows us to come together and do the work of the church.<br /><br />--liminAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com