I’m reading a couple of old posts on this topic.
For years I’ve struggled with this issue in our local church.
Lot’s of comments I could make, not the least of which are the sources and megachurches behind modern praise music.
But the topic of Regulative Principles of Worship is an important Core Doctrine we pass over today.
The video link no longer is active…but I did observe in the linked post this interesting comment..
Lola Kindley
It isn’t only the juvenile, primitive lyrics, the shoddy use of language. It isn’t only the unlovely, derivative, unmelodic, unimaginative melodies. In fact, it isn’t primarily these deficiencies that appall and repulse. Moreover, it isn’t the irrationality and manipulative emotive purpose of the music and lyrics combined. What infuriates me in worship and grieves me upon reflection is the self-centered, self-absorbed, self-elevating focus of what is deemed praise. To my mind, the most egregious failure of this degradation of worship is the presumption before the holy God, the carelessness before purity and majesty, and the foolish, willful blindness to the full reality of sin, even ongoing sin of the redeemed. The Puritans understood the condition of man and the ineffable holiness of God.
- R. Scott Clark
Hence the older Reformed sang God’s Word.
There is one final part I read…
Rainbow Trout 