Monday, May 14, 2007

"Irreverence and opposition to transcendence..."

Gene Edward Veith [Cranach] adds his observations to the discussion about why some evangelicals are attracted to Roman Catholicism. Among them was this:
...most converts from evangelicalism to Catholicism are trying to flee the megachurch. A suggestion to evangelicals who do not want to lose some of their more thoughtful members to Rome: do something about your worship.

Ministers are trying to attract the greatest number, but they perhaps do not realize just how ANNOYING and EMBARRASSING many of their devout members find contemporary worship styles to be. They cannot STAND all of that pop music, the multi-media screen they have to look up to as if in worship, the whole atmosphere of irreverence and opposition to transcendence that pervades what passes for worship today in virtually all Protestant denominations. I'm sure preachers can continue to pack their megachurches with this approach, but it risks driving many of their members to Rome.

I realize that theological considerations prevent various denominations from adopting the historic liturgy, but they can bring back their own traditional worship. A traditional Baptist service has more dignity and a traditional Pentecostal service has more transcendence than the contemporary worship styles that ALL Protestants have run to. ....
Source: Top Evangelical goes over to Rome

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