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I just viewed this and thought it could be short and sweet...
Babylon Bee June 16
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'SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—In a move that promises to shake the Evangelical music community to its very core, Hillsong United has announced it will be introducing a divisive new fifth chord into its music beginning in 2017.
“Everyone freaked out when we introduced a highly technical ‘D’ chord back in 2007, but guess what? They got used to it,” Hillsong United member Joel Houston said in a radio station interview Thursday. “So yeah, we’re rocking an ‘A minor seventh’ now. God doesn’t want us to be lazy in our songwriting, so we’re going to push the limits of what we can do musically.”'
'According to a flood of reports, worship leaders around the world have frantically begun scheduling extra weekly practices in order to learn the new chord in time for its introduction as part of Hillsong’s annual record late next year.'
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This news presents a dangerous intellectual move indeed. After all, from my years of attending evangelical Christian churches, in regard to worship music, each and every word, lyrically must be easy to understand.
This is the case for those in pre-school to the elderly. From the cradle to the grave.
The important salvific term, 'Jesus' must be easy to understand and if hypothetically the music became too abstract and the vocals too complicated, like with the Ride of the Valkyries, with those wine glass breaking opera singers, church attenders in the Western world could possibly become disorientated. These listeners could confuse the Son of God, the second member of the trinity, 'Jesus' with theological impostors such as 'Jessie' or 'Jerry' for example.
This would of course be cultic and satanic.
This theological confusion would still be a major danger even with the more complex lyrics presented in very large digital font on screen.
Based on my years of listening experience, my impression from evangelical worship music is that abstract Christian thinking should play (pardon the pun) no part in modern Christian worship music.
Abstract evangelical thinking should be left for theologians, philosophers, academics, weird intellectuals that administer Christian-focused academic websites and their equally weird readers, the Book of Revelation and its study, and people that read commentaries.
Worship leaders that are closet 'Rush' 'Mahavishu' or 'Tull' fans, or classically-trained child prodigies, should consider joining a world tour of modern classical music such as the possibly named, 'Chuckness Monster' tour and perform at secular venues or welcoming apostate, often empty, mainline churches, only.
My friend Chucky is beginning this world tour @Carnegie Hall, New York City as I type...
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