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See the poll in the right hand side bar of the page and if you feel like you need to justify your answer then feel free to comment.
Is your primary reason for staying at your church your pay?
- No, I feel called to be where I am regardless of pay (76%, 169 Votes)
- Yes, if it wasn't my primary income I would leave (16%, 36 Votes)
- Not sure (8%, 17 Votes)
Total Voters: 222
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I have been to a number of churches where I didn’t respond to the music or worship style but that was never a factor in going or not going to that church. I think there are a number of things that go into a decision like that and a lot of times the worship style is indicative of a number of values of the church so it can be a good barometer.
It is hard to leave a church because of the music when you are the pastor… or your Dad is… or you are on staff. LOL I probably should not have voted on this one.
Yeah you just ask the worship style to leave your church, not the other way around.
lol… very true but sometimes you wish you could leave your own church because of music but I am very grateful that I do not have the issue now. You are a great music leader and I am blessed. But I have had that issue in the past even when I was leading I wanted to leave because I sucked that bad… LOL
I don’t think style of music should be a deciding reason to stay or leave, apart from the volume aspect of style, which I understand how it’s possible for it to just be too loud.
I have heard ‘music’ that was so horribly performed that it was unmusical, however, and that has been a major factor in me not returning to certain church services. Painfully discordant arhythmic funeral dirge is not a musical style.
Jeff: Can we make a bumper sticker out of that last sentence? That’s gold.
You have my permission.
Unfortunately the experience isn’t gold.
I struggle with this one a lot. I used to want to be the hip worship leader that everyone liked and that everyone was happy when I was leading. I joke and say…and then I got saved. Was I just putting on a concert? Are the people there because they want good entertainment before they have to sit through a 120 minute sermon? This better not be the case.
Now I still keep things upbeat, and the best quality of song selection and styles, but if the congregation is worshipping to Everlasting God with their arms up and eyes closed, and you switch into a traditional hymn like Holy, Holy, Holy, and their arms go down and they all look confused, then were they worshipping God, or the experience?
Is it my job to keep them happy, or to guide them to worship in truth?
I literally jpmeud out of my chair and danced after reading this!
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