My Two Cents

I have a pet peeve -- please bare with me.

Why is it that modern gospel vocalists sing so loudly it breaks your eardrums and so disguise the lyrics that they are not understandable? Everyone seems to dance around this issue fearing they will be accused of judging or hurting someone's feelings, but I have simply had enough.Songs, hymns, choruses, anthems, etc. are presumably written to convey a message or else what's the point. When a vocalist so distorts the words that they are unrecognizable then there is no possibility of me being edified. I might as well be listening to a bunch of dogs barking - or more accurately howling! Everyone knows the name "Jesus" has two syllables in it. But you just watch. A modern vocalist will put fifteen in there and if he or she works hard, perhaps twenty! It ceases to be the communication of a message, but "look what I can do with my voice!" And then, I'll be John Brown, if the congregation doesn't leap to their feet and give a thunderous applause to someone who just broke their tympanic membranes and said words that no one can understand! Would someone help me understand why we applaud this and yet do not applaud a minister at the end of his message for giving us words of life out of the Bible.

This is what the world of non-Christians do. They applaud foolishness in the name of entertainment yet reject truth. The Bible says that we are not to be conformed to this world. Why then do we act like them?

Now it’s your turn. What is your two-cents?