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Repackaging Worship - User Opinions
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use what we already have
Why do we feel like there's not enough "good" music out there, that publishing groups need to constantly be churning out new, inspiring music? There seems to be a feeling that the quality of new music is also lacking. I'm not a professional vocational worship leader, so maybe I'm not getting the same impact of the "repackaging" problem. Can we just be creative with what we've got? Change up a tempo, throw in a chord substitution, sing acapella, add some new graphics that enhance the song, lots of ideas to add new meaning to an "old" song. I find that "old" songs are constantly becoming new again as I gain life experience.I think it's sad that there's a whole marketing scheme about everything now and someone (lots of people) has to make money from worship music. That's just the world we live in now. I don't have any suggestion for getting beyond the "repackaging" problem. I tell my kids, as long as you are doing what you know God wants you to be doing, then that's the right thing to do, regardless of what anyone else around you says.
Submitted by: joanna
Date Added: 2005-10-25
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Share Song
check out www.sharesong.org for fresh music.
Submitted by: Leah
Location: hercules, california
Date Added: 2005-10-25
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Fresh oil
I agree with you 100%. My family was asked to sing in a celebration service for my pastors. I called the bookstore to have them hold the track "God of Wonders" by Third Day. When I got to the store, they had 4 CD tracks for me to choose from and all of them had different versions of the same song. I'm a worship leader as well and so I'm not trying to beat anyone down, but maybe it's time for us to go to the next level in our music ministry and began to sing and produce fresh worship music straight from the heart of God. Many of us have the gift (I know I do) but we don't have the resources and are not encouraged enough. Let's tap into the "fresh oil" and bring a fresh anointing and a fresh sound to the term "worship music". Sing unto the Lord a new song...
Submitted by: Lydia Redmond
Location: University Park, IL
Date Added: 2005-10-25
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What does God say?
Perhaps what is needed is a returning to what God says about worship.
There are Christian artists who sing"worship" songs, and thoses who have a calling to lead worship.
Like anything else, it is our responsibility to discern and make good decisions regarding these matters.
Who buys all of this re-packaged music?
We are individually accountable to God for all that we do.
To Him be the glory.
Submitted by: Bob Leadenham
Location: colonia nj
Date Added: 2005-10-25
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Repackaging Worship
I agree but then I believe in the economic power of the consumer to pass by the repackaged stuff. Then on the other hand, you take artists like Phillips, Craig and Dean and their versions of worship songs are so much better than most of the original artists recordings- so much so that some songs have been given new life and the original artist/writers benefit as well through royalties they would otherwise not have received. It has been obvious that traditionally "solo" performers have jumped on the worship bandwagon: Michael W., Steven Curtis Chapman to name a couple and/or they have linked up with emerging artists purely identified with worship: Tomlin and Crowder, to facilitate identification as worship leaders rather than solo performers.
Submitted by: Dave
Location: Terre Haute, IN
Date Added: 2005-10-24
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mixed feelings
I agree with "The silver lining" post. As a worship leader and choir director who is not full time, I appreciate when Integrity's Hosanna reworks a song that I can now use with my worship team or choir. I don't have the time to rearrange every song that I like. On the other hand, I used to try to keep up with some Vineyard, Hosanna, Hillsong and Lindell Cooley, in addition to Chris Tomlin, and others, but they have been pumping out so many albums a year, with a lot of duplicate songs, my wallet can't afford to keep up. I don't think, however, that there is a lack of new songs. If you can weed through the overwhelming amount of stuff, there are quite a few new good songs every year. I try to resist becoming a "new song junkie". Question: How many new songs do you introduce to your congregation each month/year?
Submitted by: Dave Smith
Location: Trenton, NJ
Date Added: 2005-07-28
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preach it!
I agree with you; thankfully, there is still SOME quality worship music (besides SCC) that's being made with integrity, we just have to dig through the rubbish to find it...
A recent candid interview with Steve Bell in Christianity Today echoes your sentiments(see http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/interviews/2005/stevebell-0605.html)Keep up the good work, Steve (interview excerpt)
SB: "I'll be very surprised if this season isn't one of the low points in the history of music writing. It's all because of an unbridled market economy where absolutely everything gets commodified within seconds—no matter what you do, it is a product in a very short time. Everything becomes cheapened and market-driven. That's what happened in worship music—it's been commodified, and the same forces that are driving the market are driving the music. That always, always means dumbing down—it's a homogenization, a flattening of imagination. And when sales become the indicator that something is good, right away it's sort of the death of the form."
Submitted by: Steve
Location: White Rock BC
Date Added: 2005-07-18
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Absolutely
The idea that you are a worship leader if you cant sing posted by some here and just sing is wrong. A worship leader is not a band signed by a company to make them profit and make others simply feel good emotionally. A worship Leader is a person devoted to God first who's life reflects the act of worship. Music by the way is not worship only a reflection of worship. Chris Tomlin is great but repackaging U2 songs is below him. God redeemed us from the pit to glorify him not ourselves or our pocket books.
Submitted by: James Ferguson
Location: Woodland, CA
Date Added: 2005-07-14
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