Hello partner,

You’re bringing up some good things worth uncovering.

Quote Originally Posted by disciple View Post
“My opinion on this”, , “less music and other "entertainment", , “is usually met with, "we can't do that no one would come to church".
How far we have come. I too find comfort in a few good hymns. Pretty much always have from the first till now. In my experience, I’ve taken about a half-step around the block, and along the way have stopped into a few differing denominations. Interestingly enough, the denominations who would support the instructions/admonitions in the word the most, even this instruction, invariably subject themselves to a half-hour-to-forty-five minute music segment followed by everyone opening the word for another half-hour-to-forty-five minute sermon and or teaching.

Have we come down this road too far and less traveled by bible authors? I suspect the time allotted to music is due to the older generation’s fondness for music to re-***ert a day gone by to withstand life’s many changes. I don’t feel they find comfort and encouragement in the things that were used just like they were back in bible times. The “comfort” and “encouragement” found in admonitions of conduct, that is the conduct of Christian living. I wonder, does the conditioning the world has to offer counter what God would have?: I Thessalonians 4:18 and 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Then again I am reminded of one p***age that I have always found quite curious:

“Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.” (I Cor 7:20)
This curiosity of mine is compounded when I consider the work of the Spirit upon the convert who is told to remain, to an external environment but changed within:

“, ,he saved us”, , “by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.“ (***us 3:5)
Yet, it may have to be a brief course run till maturity begins to take hold:

“That we from now on be no more children, tossed to and fro, , “ (Eph 4:14)
But if all this, yours included, remains the case, we circle right back to that need of knowledge which gained neglect back there somewhere. In summation, we may have encountered witnessing one of those chief of all prophesies upon the later-day Christian; his inability to “endure” doctrine.