Our congregation has been very blessed over the years. We are able to offer the community three opportunities to attend a church service on Sunday. Two of the services are a traditional style service. The 9:15 AM service has always been a contemporary service. It seems that over the past few years a group within the church has the desire to modify the traditional services into a more contemporary style service. Maybe not quite as contemporary as the 915 service but not a traditional service either. This is frustrating for me because I want to attend a traditional service. It is important to me to sing the traditional music that I grew up singing with my grandparents. I want to share this with my grandchildren. Today the music was changed but the words were the same. Why? Why must we change anything about our traditional services?
I talked with another Church member. She told me she wasn’t happy about the changes either. She said she has noticed over the years that there is a group who are exerting subtle changes to make our traditional services more contemporary. She suggested I speak with the church council. I will do this. In the meantime I will pray about this. I will ask God to show me what I need to do. I will ask God to shine a light on the path that I should continue to walk. I would like to ask anyone who is reading this, please include me in your prayers as I pray about this. Searching for a new church family is a big deal; something I really do not want to do unless of course God is leading me in that direction.
I don’t think we have to turn traditional services into cool contemporary services. I don’t think we need to change things up. I think God is hip and cool. I believe it is important to have different styles of service to appeal to different people. We are all in different places in our lives and in our walk with Christ, but I do not believe that every service needs to have a contemporary flair because the year is 2019. God is timeless. God never goes out of style. Some of what we are lacking and searching for in today’s world is tradition and traditional values.
My God sighting is the lady in church today who took the time to listen to me share my questions and doubt.