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Bobby -> RE: Is church too feminine? (7/31/2008 7:08:04 AM)
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Some thoughts from my view as a single 33-year old who's looking for love (in all the wrong places!) and trying to find that perfect woman.
First, I do agree that the songs are too feminine. Listen to the "romantic" songs on the market ("Breathe" is most notable) that too many churches indeed sing. John MacArthur noted the songs before the middle 19th century were strong in doctrine and in Colossians 3:16, a strong carrier of Scripture and sound doctrine. He then noted that point when musicials lacking formal seminarian study (pastoral or theological training) took over writing songs and began the move of the fluffy songs, noting personal experience and the feelings took over then.
Today's US government is based on feelings, as Nancy Pelosi, who has become the de facto President, and her left-hand man Harry Reid, have established laws based on their feelings and not what is important (see their sellout to the greenie weenies who are forcing Americans to buy Japanese and German microcars while banning the family sedan based on their feelings of Gaia Worship). Today's "worship" music is based on feelings, with little, if any, theological training needed. They sound like the top 40 love songs on the radio, and the kids and some adults are very happy with the fast beat compared to the seriousness of sacred song, something that Serena and I understand too well when we take to the studio. When I am learning sacred song, or even hear her sing sacred song, do I hear her sing the pop love tunes, or do I hear her sing the strong theological sacred song of the past? Of course it's the latter. At a friend's church last month a women told me that she is supportive of the idea that real sacred song should be sung, and not the secularised "sacred" music.
Back home, they do not care why the church is feminised or even think their church is such. But it has been thanks to bad doctrine and theology of feelings taught at the pulpit and the music that creates such emotions.
But I think the church is indeed too feminine when all they are wailing are songs that could go down as regular love songs and can be sung anywhere, and pastors teach not from the Bible but on "relationships", and "best life now".
Our entire society as a whole is feminised. Boys are being told they cannot play sports because there are limits to even high schools that even the local public school of 1,500 can no longer field a baseball team because of proportions under federal law. There are no limits to girls playing sports. In a small town nearby, boys are going to other schools because the same law prohibited a school from fielding a football team. The Curse of the Bambino in Boston is at Nickerson Field at Boston University, where Babe Ruth played his final home games of his career in Boston (NL), can no longer field football or baseball teams because of feminist requests, and the men are complaining that despite the school's size, the feminists are regulating what they can do.
But feminising the church is serious. We don't want to have serious teaching in church anymore, and the pastor (who is under a leave of absence) has done it by having such feminine sermons that did not teach of the Bible. The music fits the same way too, and now we have a revolt of members.
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