A few days ago I tweeted the following: “At our church we want our
music to be as good as it can be without having people come to our
church because of it.” Some of the responses were rather telling, some
folks reading what I didn’t write, asking me why I want to promote bad
music and why I’m against people finding music attractive. For the
record, I’m not a fan of bad music (in lyric or tune or style), and I’m
not against people being attracted to music (and the arts in general).
Taking a step back, though, I find a lot of the leaping to hearing
what I didn’t say indicative of the fundamental problem. It happens
whenever one decries pragmatism and is asked why they want to be
impractical. But pragmatism and practicality aren’t the same thing. And
neither is the attractional paradigm of “doing church” identical to
wanting an attractive church. Continue at Jared Wilson
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