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@James_Dixon @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay I believe that the relegation of singing to professionals in the US was as big a blow to saving souls as anything else the devil pulled off in the twentieth century.
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@James_Dixon @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay Thinking "out of the deep have I called into thee oh Lord--Lord hear my voice" VS saying it privately VS singing it with a hundred other people....
This is what the judge dread guy means when he says that Christianity lost its memetic power.
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@James_Dixon @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay Now that I'm up on top of the soap box, let me do one more:
I frequently find myself arguing on the internet the cousin that faithful and fruitful old-type Christian congregations still exist in the US. Where the kingdom of God is preached and not the enlightenment. And the teenage boys are masculine, abs the v teenage girls are feminine, and the young women are nursing babies in the service and the fathers make the children behave and take care of the church business. Where people don't get divorced and worship is reverent and joyous.
And they exist in most, of not all , traditions: roman catholic, orthodox, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Anglican, at least. I'm not saying they are all equally correct about the right way to be Christian, I'm just saying they exist. And I have a hard time convincing people of this fact, because they are so rare that many have never seen one.
You know one thing all the ones I've seen have in common? Robust, vibrant congregational singing. Every single one. Because they are full of professional musicians? No. Because they value corporate worship, so they work at it. Without getting paid. (audible gasp)
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@James_Dixon @JohnYoungE @Escoffier @KingOfWhiteAmerica @Sulla_Felix @somemightsay The 1928 bcp has a lot going for it. The marriage service was starting to get cucked though. I guess it was published right as the Rollercoaster tipped over the top of the steep hill, but before it picked up any speed. The lectionary in the 28 is solid gold though. If you just read the scripture in the list for morning and evening prayer for the whole year, I guarantee that you will feel like a new man. And the coverdale psalms? Reciting them twice a day for a year will stave off the filth like an iodine pill in a fallout zone. I suspect singing them every day for very long might result in translation into heaven.
I swear if I could get everybody I see arguing about the church on the internet to sing the psalms in congregation, the world would change.
Jimmy
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