Beyond the music wars

Here is an interesting article on worship music. It reminded me of how lucky or whatever we are at BMPCNC to have such a diverse pool of talented musicians. And two distinctive venues to allow them to use their gifts to lead worship through music. I wouldn't claim that we have "arrived" in terms of how we do worship and music, but we most certainly have all the right ingredients. Our vision is clear: to offer two varieties of worship experience. How that is expressed is constantly evolving.

There was a time when our church lived through some pretty intense skirmishes on the matter of music and worship. I think we have moved beyond that and are at a point now of trying to do what we are committed to as best we can.

One of the things I heard most frequently after our Montreat-Anderson outing was folks favorable response to the diversity of the music we shared in worship and in the pre-service concert. Amen to that. We are using folks best gifts in service to God. That makes for authentic and vibrant worship.