Tim Niedfeldt - From a Facebook discussion
Tim Niedfeldt The problem isn't in the music (although most of it is crap) It's in the desire to be contemporary, to appeal to the current age with worship that apes the evangelicals and strives to "soften" church and lure in some suckers and church shoppers. We get all post modern, and inevitably the message will change, the law gospel balance gets lost and it turns into a gospel only and then a sanctification only service. it's about being cozy and friendly and having good coffee and any notion of church goes out the window. A social club is more like it...with coffee cake.
It is a slippery slope and the WELS will slide down it. I dare one contemporary WELS church defend that it has maintained better doctrine, theology, and stuck fervently to the Lutheran church, the confessions, and even the Bible. Turning the service into a seeker/outreach tool is wrong. It is pastors and people too lazy to relate the gospel in their vocations and an attitude of " lets just put on a good show and feel good about each other and more people will come and get a few good sound bites out of it." You could have a contemporary service play a contemporary version of " A Mighty Fortress" 4 times during a service but I can tell you that church is slip slip sliding away..
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