You might say the Sex Pistols can't be Christian but you certainly can't say the punk isn't (google Christian punk for a laugh) - is anything not usable by Christians? I've been to goth and trance worship.
There is probably a necessity for the average middle ground, with the unfortunate side effect that most people don't love it (particularly in our consumer culture) but there's also necessity for culturally 'niche' expressions of Christianity / worship / etc. to help people find home.
Punk was popular in the late 70s, but mainly with people who were teens and twenties then. So it may still be liked now by people who are in their 60s now! But like other popular music forms (maybe ABBA excepted!) it was never liked by all ages at once. Whereas musical worship in a healthy church is multi-generational. Does that not condemn us all to tolerating what is bland and inoffensive (or what young worship leaders today enjoy)?!
Christianity: creates a culture defined by goodness, beauty and truth out of which flows Handel, Beethoven and Mozart.
Cameron: is there a Christian genre or is it just Hillsong?
You might say the Sex Pistols can't be Christian but you certainly can't say the punk isn't (google Christian punk for a laugh) - is anything not usable by Christians? I've been to goth and trance worship.
There is probably a necessity for the average middle ground, with the unfortunate side effect that most people don't love it (particularly in our consumer culture) but there's also necessity for culturally 'niche' expressions of Christianity / worship / etc. to help people find home.
Punk was popular in the late 70s, but mainly with people who were teens and twenties then. So it may still be liked now by people who are in their 60s now! But like other popular music forms (maybe ABBA excepted!) it was never liked by all ages at once. Whereas musical worship in a healthy church is multi-generational. Does that not condemn us all to tolerating what is bland and inoffensive (or what young worship leaders today enjoy)?!