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Luther Rocks: A Good Idea?:
In the news last week it was reported that Dave Ellefson, current bassist and founding member of Megadeth is studying to be a LC-MS pastor. It will take him a scant two years. It makes you wonder how much he will get to delve into Hebrew, Greek and German. Will he be properly equipped to carry out his call when he is ordained?
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GJ - I was disturbed that so many "conservative" Lutheran writers cooed over the news. I blogged the story because it was a PR announcement.
8 comments:
Languages aren't required in the Reader's Digest version of sem, known as the SMP Progrm. That's okay, for his praise band wil be first rate.
At high school reunions, when we have nostalgia quizzes, I miss all the questions on the pop songs of our era, even though I like pop music in general. What I find disturbing is the time and energy devoted to hard rock, which is hardly music at all.
I see many blog profiles where the favorite musicians are Bach, Grateful Dead, MegaDeath. The Bach citation reminds me of the WELS entertainment liturgists calling themselves "confessional."
My argument is that if children are raised on true classical music (Bach, Mozart, Handel) and good hymns, they will always have a capacity for great music. If they spend all their time on pop and rock, they will think of classical music as background music "for like when I study sometimes, you know?"
Yes, I know.
I agree. Even though I've bashed a lot of pop music lately on LR, I still have a love for much of it. I would have to say that intent is what makes it good or bad. I drive my family and friends nuts with all the trivia I can spew out about songs and artists when they come on the radio...which I don't play much any more....hate the short repeating playlists and lack of substance in today's pop. I stream Pandora and Rhapsody these days. I think all the music I got into made it easier to go to the contemporary side. But I had my share of hymns and classical growing up. My mother exposed me to the 'long haired' stuff. LOL. I wrote a term paper in high school on Beethoven. A book came out about ten years ago called "Beethoven's Hair". Its a great read. It solved the mystery of his loss of hearing. It is still amazing to me the beauty of his Ninth Symphony as he composed it when he was totally deaf.
How was the mystery solved?
Beethoven's hearing loss was even more pathetic than most people realize, but it drove him from performer to composer - a happy tragedy.
I used to drive back from Yuma to Phoenix to the sounds of the Eroica. I directed it and sang along - great fun.
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/megadeth/th1rt3en.html#7
During Roman and Byzantine times, church would make converts go through catechism class for years before they could take eucharist. One can be a pastor nowadays in the LCMS with the same amount of preparation demanded of early church catechumens, even when one is a pagan and a hard rocker:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Christian_Initiation_of_Adults
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/megadeth/th1rt3en.html#7
@ Brett...interesting lyrics. They were obviously penned by someone with Bible knowledge. Problem is you don't know if they are preaching, warning or just talking about the agenda they might be a part of. Dark indeed.
@ GJ...the book takes you on a travelogue of sorts of a lock of Beethoven's hair from the time it was cut from his head during the wake to the present day when the hair could be analyzed by modern technologies. If you don't think you'll read the book, I can spoil the ending... :)
WELS readers, better check this out before you start clucking your tongues at the LC-MS:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/05/cacophony-defined-wels-emergent-church.html
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