Electric Guitars

[Ratae Coritano…]

Get your pointy guitars down to your church and let God hear ya!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21425108

[Ancient Mariner]

I have some sympathy about wanting to not be like a conventional church, but mixed feelings about embracing the darker side of metal. Death and misery are things that a real faith in Jesus would be setting people free from, rather than encouraging them toward. Having said that, this IS a BBC news article, and may not be exactly presenting an accurate representation of what they're doing in order to create a bit more 'newsworthiness'.

I've been happy to use Vs and my Washburn A20 in church, and no-one ever seemed to mind.

[Ratae Coritano…]

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Ancient Mariner wrote:
I have some sympathy about wanting to not be like a conventional church, but mixed feelings about embracing the darker side of metal. Death and misery are things that a real faith in Jesus would be setting people free from, rather than encouraging them toward. Having said that, this IS a BBC news article, and may not be exactly presenting an accurate representation of what they're doing in order to create a bit more 'newsworthiness'.

I've been happy to use Vs and my Washburn A20 in church, and no-one ever seemed to mind.

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To me, this seems like the very sort of Christian gathering that Christ would have attended.

And it's Dogma Free, and seemingly discrimintaes against no one.....Whole Lotta Jesus Goin On

[Frets99]

Like AM alluded to, if the atmosphere allows people to hold onto their addictions to negativity as opposed to the freedom from negativity that Christ preached, I would have to doubt it's ability to pass on the Good News. If, in this setting, people are being freed from the bondage of addictive behaviors and towards a healing of spirit by Christ, I would applaud the idea. It's not enough to just be non-traditional. Love is at the root of Christ's teaching and our difficulty loving others is directly related to our ability to love ourselves.

[Ratae Coritano…]

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Frets99 wrote:
 if the atmosphere allows people to hold onto their addictions to negativity as opposed to the freedom from negativity that Christ preached, I would have to doubt it's ability to pass on the Good News.

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I don't see that in any of the article from The Order of the Black Sheep, The Glorious Undead or Asylum, just liberation and inclusion and sight of a spiritual path where once they saw none

[Ancient Mariner]

"I'm into really heavy metal. The more dark and twisted the better."

"It's a mixture of death and black metal. Anything that sounds distorted and nasty," he says. "We sing about how bad life can be but always make sure there's a bit of hope.

It could be taken several ways - that's why I didn't say "they aren't real Christians" but instead expressed some reservations because I didn't know more. I love that they're getting out and reaching a sub-culture that has based itself around welcoming evil and darkness, but concerned that in order to do so they aren't tackling the issues of that evil and darkness. I would be really happy if that were were not the case - and as I said, I don't know either way, because it IS a BBC review.

[warriorpoet]

Reminds me of these guys: http://www.scumoftheearth.net/SOTEC/Welcome.html

Phil 1:15-18

15 Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. 16 The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 17 The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. 18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.

/ wp's morning office theology 

FWIW, as a young wanderer, I would have been totally into this.  It's a revelation to have hope preached in your language, even if that language is hopelessness.  Sometimes life's path takes us through dark woods.

[kayd_mon]

If religions didn't market themselves according to the times and to the people in their area, they would never grow. Just seems logical to me.

[D Carroll]

They got booze, and loose women?

[kayd_mon]

Of course they do, just not on Sunday.

[koiwoi]

I like electric guitars.

[billybilly]

Religion is for people who are afraid to die or walk alone, if you can let go of this fear, you are truly on your way to becoming a spiritual being.

[BydoEmpire]

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koiwoi wrote:
I like electric guitars.

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Amen!

[Mad Tele]

southern baptist= hot girls

heavy metal=fat chicks

[honeyiscool]

Considering that praise & worship does derive from rock 'n roll, which was considered devil's music...

All music worth listening to has been described as dangerous.

[Alecto]

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honeyiscool wrote:
Considering that praise & worship does derive from rock 'n roll, which was considered devil's music...

All music worth listening to has been described as dangerous.

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The irony there is the rhythm of early rock n' roll came from black gospel music.