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  • Keith Lancaster’s “Praise Team” Is Still….
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      Posted Nov 19, 2007 7:47 AM

      Today’s “contemporary worship” was all dominated by the “Praise Team” musical idolatry. Mark Spears substituted for Brent Whitworth. Mark might have done an excellent job leading singing … I think so. But I can’t say that with certainty because the other “worship leaders” consisting of both men and WOMEN “leaders” were overpowering him and the congregation. Let’s put the blame on the handheld microphones that the PT members use while they perform—as usual. OK? Even the female soloist—who performed the Communion song [I mean, prior to the point when the other PT performers joined her]—was pretty loud. Who couldn’t help but notice that a distracting female soloist was doing her thing while the others were trying to concentrate on the solemnity of the occasion? Again, let’s put the blame on the handheld microphone she was using. OK?

      I seem to recall that there was a poster who recently brought up a question as to why the first assembly was scheduled for an hour (8:00-9:00) whereas the “contemporary praise worship” was scheduled for way over an hour beginning at 10:30.

      [Pause—I’ll admit that I haven’t checked out the church’s website in months. Shame on me! Is it just my imagination and my ignorance? Right now, I don’t get the impression that the site is “under construction.” But I was looking for the schedule from 10:30-11:45. I didn’t see 11:45. So, I would think that “1 hour and 15 minutes” is the correct length of time allotted for the “worship hour PLUS].” No, my problem just now was that I was not able to locate the list of the elders immediately—of all things. Maybe, the site is really under construction. But I’ll check again at another time.]

      Speaking moreover of the question about assembly time, let me just point out that the contemporary period is usually extended to no less than 1 hour and 15 minutes because the greater emphasis is on the “praise service” that the Praise Team is devoted to. Today there were 11 “praise musical” pieces that the Praise Team performed for the congregants—NONE from the extinction-bound hymns of the past. (Please don’t be misled by the titles of these praise musical pieces. Some of these pieces actually have the programmed “clap-clap” or “clap-clap-clap” embedded in them. By that I mean that a musical piece may specifically indicate WHEN the clapping is to occur. That’s sad and unfortunate. The Praise Team does a good job of leading this useless and annoying, unintelligible noise. Of course, there was one piece whose title is not misleading—“If You Miss Me.”)

      Again, while the Praise Team exists, controversy will remain. It is really sad that true congregational singing is vanishing away—and it is very quickly vanishing away as the hymns are. It simply cannot be made up by the performance of the choir members. There’s just no way!!!
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