Dan Dean

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Brian K Berger wrote:

> We seem still to be like the Hebrew children and worship just when the
> music either plays or stops.

How true this is. I have noticed that in some services, when a preacher 
"huffs and puffs" sometimes they like the organ playing behind them. I 
told my wife to watch one service when this happened. The preacher 
preached for quite a while with no one barely saying "AMEN". But, when 
the organ hit that first note, many people began to stand and support the 
Word of God...poor souls!

When I was a drummer at my former church, the other musicians and I 
conducted an experiment during service. It was my idea (hope I don't get 
heckeled for this), but I explained to them that many times, the spirit 
is not in control of people's shouting, but the musicians are...so we did 
something to prove my point...

As we were playing music for the choir, people got "emotional" and began 
to shout. As the music died, so did the shouting....I looked over to them 
and said, "let's get them going again"....so we started the music back, 
and there they went again...we allowed to music to die down again...and 
once again I said let's hit it again...sure enough, the people responded 
to the music.

I love music in the church, but I don't think it's fair to say you were 
shouting in the spirit when it was obviously that tight snare that made 
you jump out of your seat!