Worship Mob

[Vince]

Modern churches are trying to actually keep people coming in and not let them die of boredom.

Oops... why? Because the word of God is boring?

Comrade, do you doubt the final victory?

[jeremyb]

I think when you need rock music and fireworks and spend hard on big stadium events to get attendance you're in a worrying place! Bring back the dark ages!!!

[rickenbackerkid]

Modern churches are trying to actually keep people coming in and not let them die of boredom.

Oops... why? Because the word of God is boring?

Comrade, do you doubt the final victory?

Precisely. When we’re trying to attract people with good music rather than God woe of woe


somewhere we’ve gone horribly wrong

[Danger Mouse]

Modern churches are trying to actually keep people coming in and not let them die of boredom.

Oops... why? Because the word of God is boring?

Comrade, do you doubt the final victory?

Precisely. When we’re trying to attract people with good music rather than God woe of woe


somewhere we’ve gone horribly wrong

The music may or may not be helping but at least it is an attempt to stay relevant. There's a lot of stuff vying for peoples attention these days, we are in an information rich, instant gratification world and as God doesn't have a twitter account, how do you get new,young members to your church, without alienating the older regulars?

The current methods don't appear to be working either way.

http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/9501270/C ... ligious-NZ

[jeremyb]

What's interesting about those figures is that I doubt more than 5% of those who have identified as one of the Christian religions would go to church... But Muslims etc go in droves!

[Edwards]

What's interesting about those figures is that I doubt more than 5% of those who have identified as one of the Christian religions would go to church... But Muslims etc go in droves!

You are about right JB. Some recent research done by one of the megachurches in aucks showed that about 7% of NZers attend a Christian church service regularly.
But me mom said i would go far with my delay pedal !!!

[Bg]

I think if you started doing some holy hip hop in church, you'd get more people through the door.

Or return to the days of fire and brimstone, its probably fear driving the muslims....

[Danger Mouse]

Or return to the days of fire and brimstone, its probably fear driving the muslims....

Well they need somewhere to hide from the Americans.

[Polar Bear]

The music may or may not be helping but at least it is an attempt to stay relevant. There's a lot of stuff vying for peoples attention these days, we are in an information rich, instant gratification world and as God doesn't have a twitter account, how do you get new,young members to your church, without alienating the older regulars?

The current methods don't appear to be working either way.

http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/9501270/C ... ligious-NZ

Well... He does have a Facebook account.
https://m.facebook.com/TheGoodLordAbove ... dLordAbove

[jeremyb]

I think if you started doing some holy hip hop in church, you'd get more people through the door.

Or return to the days of fire and brimstone, its probably fear driving the muslims....

Its the virgins waiting for them in heaven, wouldn't it be hilarious if they were all gay virgins though! Ah crap I blew myself up and it turns out Allah is filming Butt pirates of the Caribbean 17 and I'm roger the cabin boy

[Vince]

What's interesting about those figures is that I doubt more than 5% of those who have identified as one of the Christian religions would go to church... But Muslims etc go in droves!

Muslims in a church? pretty sure they go to mosques.

Wonder when they stopped being "Moslems" and "Mohammedans".

[hamo]

NZreligion.com

[Eruera]

Muslims find moslem offensive because it means something along the lines of "hateful evil person" in arabic (can't remember the particulars), and they find mohammadean offensive because Islam is particularly anti-idolatry and it suggests they are worshipping Mohammed and not Allah.

Now how about we bring this back to talking about music

[Hot_Grits]

What's interesting about those figures is that I doubt more than 5% of those who have identified as one of the Christian religions would go to church... But Muslims etc go in droves!

Different structure. For Muslims, prayer times happen several times a day, though observation of each is down to practicality and devoutness. And prayer time is shorter. So it's regular, but quick and convenient (never far to a mosque or just pop yer blankey toward Mecca) compared to the big deal TA-DAA! That is church on Sunday.

Strange to get used to, though. In Saudi the shops shut for every prayer time. So any shopping trip is accompanied by time-out sessions. Some of this is alleviated by shops not opening at all until 5pm. You get used to it.

[Vince]

Muslims find moslem offensive because it means something along the lines of "hateful evil person" in arabic (can't remember the particulars), and they find mohammadean offensive because Islam is particularly anti-idolatry and it suggests they are worshipping Mohammed and not Allah.

Now how about we bring this back to talking about music

Yeah, nah... I was asking about when they stopped, not why.