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Worship Styles // Braylan Stringfellow

     The worship service during church is very important. It allows us to open up hearts to be ready for the sermon that is going to be preached to us. The article on Catholic Tradition tells us one worship style.

    The church leaders had a fear that the music during worship could be a distraction to the audience. They made sure that the style of music would not a distraction to people, and they wanted people to focus on the spiritual side of the song, mainly the message in the lyrics, and not on the music itself. They went so far as to make sure the style of music would not cause a "physical rhythmic response such a clapping or toe tapping."

    Growing up, I've been in two types of churches. One did not allow people to clap or move to the music that was playing, and they made sure that the songs played would not cause movement. The other one will straight up tell us to stand up and clap and get involved with the music. The current church I go to is like the second one and I personally do a lot better during the worship service. When the worship service is done, I am so exited to hear what my pastor is going to preach and I am just so ready to hear from God. While I was at the other church that did everything they could to avoid songs that would make me want to clap, I would so bored, and by the time the preacher would get up to preach, I was asleep. I would zone out and the last thing on my mind was God. So the style of this church, which is the same as what we see in the Catholic Tradition article, was more of a distraction to me that what they saw as a distraction. 

    Now I'm saying that this worship style is wrong; what I am saying is that it is not for everyone. People respond to different things. I've seen people become focused on God with this style. However, I personally respond better to the style found in Psalms 47:1 which says, "Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!" (ESV). 

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