I am interested in what Christians have to say about this.
Why is so much of Christian music so bland and pablum-like?
1. The effect of religious music should be for worship, encouragement, edification.
2. Religious music should be true to doctrine.
3. Contemporary religious music has been lax on the above and high on entertainment.
4. Much of the drive with contemporary music has been monetary.
5. Imo, too much of religious music has been prayer songs. This is not good, since prayer is too sacred and personal to be sung by groups. For example, the song, "I surrender all." This prayer song to God, when sung by a congregation becomes a lie to God by some of those who sing along because that is the 'thing to do.' Also, Jesus said that all prayers should be offered to the Father in the name of
him, the Son.
I've been in many churches over the last 58 years and have seen a gradual dumbing down of the quality and messages in contemporary Christian music. For the most part, the old hymns fit the ticket for worshipful and sound misic for Christians. This is not to say there's some other good choruses and songs. Some are even better than some of the old hymns. Not all of the hymns were that good. My comments pertain to the overall trend.
The church I presently attend sings only the old hymns for morning worship service and I really like that. It's refreshing after having been in other churches which have pretty much replaced them with contemporary choruses and repetative chants.
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