What kind of music does your church play?

[SteelDisciple]

My wife and I's church plays mainly rock music. It's a great pleasure to worship God with such powerful songs.

How about you all? What's your music like?

[JulySheMustFly]

A little of everything. In the past 3 weeks we have had a choir sing a classic hymn, the service open with a little jazz funk number, one of the worhisp team sing a country song during communion. But in general you can count on hearing rock of just about any kind. I love being able to worship in a style that is who you are Monday through Saturday too.

[knownbeforetime]

modern praise and worship

good stuff

[Stan53]

You name it we use it.
Have fun know Jesus.

[*Lu*]

3/4 members of my bf's band play the music for our worship, when they play its modern stuff, but when they dont it goes back to traditional hyms with the piano flute and harp. which is nice but personally they're not my fave coz they've got thees n thous in n i get tongue tired hehe.

[oliveplants]

Our church does the modern stuff; long verses, little or no chorus, all flowy. Some of the songs are really beautiful, but it gets irritating to have only ballads. The children find it hard to remember the words, so they all get bored instead of singing along like they would with either hymns or choruses.
I prefer the hymns.

[faithopelove]

Contemporary P & W

[PorcelainHeart]

pop music

[MommyofanAngel]

We do praise and worship, and my father-in-law plays the guitar for the praise team.

[Templedweller]

The church my Wife and I attend are traditional in the approach in the early service Organ and hymns and all.

In the 2nd and 3rd services it is modern praise and worship....Some really neat newer stuff and stuff though modern not all the ones that are played to death...I like it very much.....there is some Vineyard Praise and Worship in it as well as others...it is a uniquely awesome blend of worship...always noble, new, and nice arrangements of worship.....skillfully played!!!

Sincerely,
Templedweller:)

[MikeMcK]

One of the reasons I recently left my church is because of the music.

They stopped using hymns and started to use rock music and those insipid "Jesus-is-my-girlfriend" "worship" songs.

Don't get me wrong, anybody who's ever read my posts on music knows how much I love rock and roll, but it isn't appropriate for worship and the "worship" songs are so shallow and man-centered, that I just couldn't take it anymore.

I left (as well as a bunch of other people) for several reasons, but the music was one of those areas God convicted me about.

I'm trying to find a new church now and one of the things I'm considering is the music that they have. It looks like churches that use hymns are becoming few and farther in between.

[dalej42]

We have a very interesting and very good music program. The music is diverse, but leans towards modern music arranged in a traditional style. We have a full symphony orchestra as well as choir. An organ is used during most songs as well.

We're a liturgical church, so the music will vary according to church season. Generally, more classic hymns are used during Advent and Lent, while the summer is a bit more relaxed.

On occasion, we will have a jazz or gospel song, usually during the offering.

[Jacob4707]

One of the reasons I recently left my church is because of the music.

They stopped using hymns and started to use rock music and those insipid "Jesus-is-my-girlfriend" "worship" songs.

Don't get me wrong, anybody who's ever read my posts on music knows how much I love rock and roll, but it isn't appropriate for worship and the "worship" songs are so shallow and man-centered, that I just couldn't take it anymore.

I left (as well as a bunch of other people) for several reasons, but the music was one of those areas God convicted me about.

I'm trying to find a new church now and one of the things I'm considering is the music that they have. It looks like churches that use hymns are becoming few and farther in between.

May I suggest you visit an Orthodox Church and listen to the chanting of The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom? Hopefully the church will be one in which the congregation sings along with the choir (some, unfortunately, have largely non-participatory congregants) - and one without pews, too, for the "true" Orthodox experience. ^_^

A lot of Orthodox churches now have many Evangelical/Protestant converts or inquirers who left the multimedia MTV-like worship services for precisely the same reasons you expressed. But instead of going back to hymns that are only a couple or a few hundred years old, they decided to go back a millennium and more. In fact, some of the chants in the Divine Liturgy are the earliest Christian hymns known. :liturgy:

Listen to the words of The Divine Liturgy. You'll never settle for insipid worship lyrics again. (I'm not condemning CCM or contemporary praise and worship - I still like Hillsong a lot.)

[pineapplelesson]

Contemporary Praise and Worship. We have a small worship team that do a great job.

..Nena..

[DoctorWho]

Mostly modern Praise & Worship, but with an old time hymn thrown in every now and again.

Also, sometimes our worship leader will do an old hymn but he'll "update' the music so it sounds a little more modern.

:)

[GraceLikeRainFallsDown]

Our church does it all. We have modern rock and hymns. They mix it up. I like all styles. I do really like when thye do the old hymns. There is something so moving about them.

[mjashirluk]

The music the JA has is a mixture of spirit filled to rap about the ASBO's and everything in between

[Scorcher505]

I help run a church service for college students mainly, but anyone is welcome and we play rock. Mostly David Crowder or Chris Tomlin style stuff.

[biblebeliever]

We have mainly hymns right out of the hymnals with a piano and an organ. For specials, we have everything from contemporary to southern gospel to accapella, more hymns, etc. For the youth group on Sunday night, we have praise and worship with a guitar. In other words, I guess we have a little of lots of things.

[ForHimAlone]

We have pretty much all contemporary worship...but with a little bit of the old hyms jazzed up for flavor...