the way we experience church

first off, i don't want to title this the way we worship. worship should be our very existence. there should be no separation between our life and our worship as followers of Christ. so therefore i entitle this the way we experience church. for now, i just want to touch on the notion of music in church. there will forever be a battle between the generations as to how we partake in the said subject whilst at church. i'm reading a book about christian ethics, by a collaboration of authors, at the moment, and in it the author of a chapter talked about music styles and whatnot. basically he was concerned that music styles play too much to the current culture. i agree with this. i don't think that church needs to be some flashy place that caters to the desires of the cnn and itunes followers. however, the author did seem to advocate the hymns of the past as the way to go. hey, i enjoy hymns, no quibbles with that. but the fact is that those hymns are culturally relative in themselves. yes, many do speak a great theological wonder and biblical truth, but many of them do not as well. i think i am coming to the point where i believe wholeheartedly that theological significance should be the way we deem music suitable for the church. personally i'm a fan of hillsong united. i don't necessarily advocate everything the leader of their parent movement, brian houston, preaches, and i find a certain youtube parody of their church quite accurate in many regards. but, some of their songs speak of what the gospel is all about, and i wouldn't mind singing this in church sometime. this song is called solution. especially after this gospel of luke class that i was in, i think it sums up some key points we believe about Jesus, his love, compassion and hospitality:

It is not a human right
To stare not fight
While broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find
The Mercy for the need

Singing, Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession
Yeah

It is not too far a cry
To much to try
To help the least of these
Politics will not decide
If we should rise
And be your hands and feet

Singing, Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey Now
As we hold to our confession

Woah-oh-oh,
God be the solution
Woah-oh-oh
We will be Your hands and be Your feet.
Yeah, yeah

Higher than a circumstance
Your promise stands
Your love for all to see
Higher than protest line and dollar signs
Your love is all we need

Only You can mend the broken heart
And cause the blind to see
Erase complete the sinners past
And set the captives free
Only You can take the widows cry
And cause her heart to sing
Be a Father to the fatherless
Our Savior and our King
We will be Your hands, we will be Your feet
We will run this race
On the darkest place, we will be Your light
We will be Your light

We will be Your hands , we will be Your feet
We will run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place, we will be your light
We will be your light
We'll sing

Woah-oh-oh,
God be the solution
Woah-oh-oh
We will be Your hands and be Your feet.