quercuscontramalum (http://quercuscontramalum.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Praise Banditry Is a House of Cards Waiting To Fal...":
You mention one of the obvious errors of praize bands: they remove the congregation. I had the occasion to attend a 'blended service' [purity 'blended' with WHAT??] and the congregation sang exactly one refrain of the final hymn.
I'm not exaggerating. Imagine a room full of Lutherans NOT being allowed to sing during a service! The agony!
Instead of a congregation declaring the works of the Lord and proclaiming the Gospel to their neighbor through song, instead of one generation teaching the next using music and word tied together, it was a bar band muddling and pounding over a SATB group overreaching their talent like
