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Date Posted: 03:34:09 12/05/04 Sun
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: Ban on secular or modern music
In reply to: Anonymous 's message, "Ban on secular or modern music" on 17:30:25 12/04/04 Sat

Basically, the only music that was appropriate to listen to were hymns and classical music. Contemporary Christian music was a no-go.

That is somewhat different from my experience. Clearly, the elder Koreans prefered hymns and classical music. But younger Koreans also like contemporary music. And I believe that in most chapters contemporary music is used because it is much more attractive to young people. In Germany, at least, I would say that even the majority of songs were from contemporary Christian song books. When Sunday worship service numbers decreased, our leader even ordered a special contemporary music program before the worship service in order to get the right atmosphere and make the Sunday service more attractive. It also meant additional occupation for the UBF members like me who had to prepare the music. They think it is always good if people are occupied in the center. I even would go so far and say that the contemporary music I heared in UBF was one of the things which made me overlook the problematic aspects. The text of the songs was always correct (though sometimes completely different from UBF reality, but I couldn't see that), the music was so encouraging, comforting and inspiring. When we sang together, it was very difficult for me to imagine that there could be any problems with the group. So, contemporary music is one very important element for recruiting new members and keeping them sold on UBF. And you know that in UBF, the end always justifies the means. Of course, during the worship service or in conferences, hymns were also used. At the beginning and the end we always had to sing the same hymn, probably the favorite hymn of the leader (or more probably the favorite hymn of Samuel Lee).

You have to understand that singing the classical American (or rather English) hymns in worship services is completely unusual in ordinary German worship service in the church. They are already contemporary compared with our traditional church singing which goes back to the time of Martin Luther or even before. The melodies are a bit boring, but the text of these songs is sometimes much better than the text of the English revivalist hymns or contemporary music.

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What was modern once... -- Mike K., 06:28:47 12/05/04 Sun

What were the lyrics? -- PECAS, 13:48:53 12/06/04 Mon