Worship bands full of younger people who care more about advancing their own musical careers than leading worship
I've been to a lot of churches in my day since I always have to move every year or two for my job, and those 3 have all become dealbreakers.
Found a pretty good church in Keller, TX. 60+ year old pastor, no female pastors, and worship band full of people old enough to be my parents with the lead singer being in her upper 50s.
I grew up in a born again Evangelical fellowship that did not allow women to become preachers. They did not allow musical accompaniment either, just the whole congregation singing hymns together that were written in 1800s.
Who wants to hear Jesus rock anyway, it's shitty, and uninspiring. A lot of that crap started in the 70s, it was lame then, and it's lame now. I moved away and am no longer close to the fellowship. They were fundamentalist to a fault, which made their bible readings reductively literal and lacking in theological relevance.
Nowadays I would not know where to go. Seems there are a lot of woke or progressive churches out there that tried to adapt to bring millennials back to the church, and haven't course corrected since.
I hate worship bands to be honest with you... I much prefer hymnals and a choir as well. I feel like too many churches are caught up in an arms race to have the most high tech sound and lighting equipment... tens of thousands of dollars that could be spent better elsewhere.
I signed up to do a year of mission work after college... it was at a somehwat large church in Southern California(6,000 congregation or so). Pretty much everyone else who signed up for the mission belonged to that church and only signed up so they could get close to the worship leaders. Their participation was 100% self serving trying to get onto the worship team. I quit 4 months in.
Oh I hate those bands too - three songs at beginning that have no melody and all sound alike. We are trying to find a church and those immediately are ruled out.
Women pastors is a big one
Millenial pastors as well
Worship bands full of younger people who care more about advancing their own musical careers than leading worship
I've been to a lot of churches in my day since I always have to move every year or two for my job, and those 3 have all become dealbreakers.
Found a pretty good church in Keller, TX. 60+ year old pastor, no female pastors, and worship band full of people old enough to be my parents with the lead singer being in her upper 50s.
I grew up in a born again Evangelical fellowship that did not allow women to become preachers. They did not allow musical accompaniment either, just the whole congregation singing hymns together that were written in 1800s.
Who wants to hear Jesus rock anyway, it's shitty, and uninspiring. A lot of that crap started in the 70s, it was lame then, and it's lame now. I moved away and am no longer close to the fellowship. They were fundamentalist to a fault, which made their bible readings reductively literal and lacking in theological relevance.
Nowadays I would not know where to go. Seems there are a lot of woke or progressive churches out there that tried to adapt to bring millennials back to the church, and haven't course corrected since.
I hate worship bands to be honest with you... I much prefer hymnals and a choir as well. I feel like too many churches are caught up in an arms race to have the most high tech sound and lighting equipment... tens of thousands of dollars that could be spent better elsewhere.
I signed up to do a year of mission work after college... it was at a somehwat large church in Southern California(6,000 congregation or so). Pretty much everyone else who signed up for the mission belonged to that church and only signed up so they could get close to the worship leaders. Their participation was 100% self serving trying to get onto the worship team. I quit 4 months in.
Oh I hate those bands too - three songs at beginning that have no melody and all sound alike. We are trying to find a church and those immediately are ruled out.