The choir's praise is not just singing, but offering sacrifices to God. Accept the praise of my mouth as an offering, O LORD, and teach me your law. (Psalm119:108 NIV), praise means to affirm a thing or a person and publicize it. "Hallelujah" is Hebrew, "Harry" is praise and propaganda, "Road" is you, "Ya" is the Lord God, and the object of praise is God! You can't praise God and yourself at the same time, and use a drama as an analogy: God is the general director! The choir acts as a pastor of praise, and its role in drama is to "tell the truth". White is dialogue, and actors are members. In order to make everyone play better, the choir played a leading role. In fact, God is the best director, and an actor should satisfy the director. Choir is to help actors please God. Sometimes the members of the choir are misplaced. We thought we would stand among the gods, but we raised ourselves. By this time, he was no longer a priest, but an actor. Nowadays, many people want to be stars and sacrifice according to their own desires, which is not pleasing to God. They can't think of themselves as actors or express themselves. We should take God as the center, and the choir is only the representative of the congregation, leading everyone to meet God. We must reform our thinking. We are an army that glorifies God, and we are also an army that preaches the gospel. Everything is just for the glory of God! We are priests, not actors, and the choir is a sacrifice. Make a good position for ourselves before becoming a priest. We should be crazy for God, not for art. ..
Secondly, the choir is the representative of the congregation.
The choir sacrificed on behalf of the congregation. Martin Luther said that "everyone is a priest", which is the grace and happiness of the New Testament era. Relying on Jesus Christ, we can come to God in peace. Praise and sacrifice are the responsibility of every congregation. Among them, the first priest is the whole congregation, and the choir is the representative of the congregation, which has the gift of singing and offering sacrifices on behalf of all the teaching staff. Choir members must have a talent for singing. God gives different gifts to everyone, not everyone. This function is:
1, push the congregation to God
When the choir sings, it will touch all the congregation, build a bridge between man and God in the singing, and draw closer the relationship between man and God through the singing of the choir.
2. Be an example for the congregation and improve the enthusiasm of the congregation to offer poems.
3. Lead the congregation to walk in front of the congregation.
Praise is like a pioneer, walking ahead.
4. Improve the congregation's aesthetic ability to sacred music.
On the creativity and richness of sacred music, if we use some folk tunes or some shoddy music for a long time, it will make everyone's aesthetics decline. When I hear truly sacred music, I don't understand. We must try to bring orthodox sacred music back to the church.
Thirdly, the form of modern poetry service.
1, traditional sacrificial music mode
2. Praise and worship of the modern model.
This has almost become the mainstream of our church, but the traditional worship of sacred music is irreplaceable. The advantage of the modern model is positive enthusiasm. Leaders can arouse a warm atmosphere, show freedom, and actively and quickly devote themselves to worship, which can also attract young people. However, its shortcoming is utilitarianism. Many leading brothers and sisters don't know what sacrifice is at all, and they are easily narcissistic. Expressing truth in plain language only releases people's spiritual feelings and has nothing to do with the worship of God. Only reborn people can sing spiritual songs and sing the charm of hymns, but the prosperity of the soul is not spiritual prosperity, that is, only excitement without the touch of the Holy Spirit. Be wary of money worship in music and don't turn praise into a concert. The devil knows music. He is the chief musician. Sometimes the devil just wants to use the excitement of our souls to disturb our worship. We must lift our eyes and see that there is no one except Jesus Christ, so the praise of modern mode cannot completely replace tradition. There can be no entertainment in Sunday worship.
Fourth, sacred music.
1, there is no theological definition of divine joy. Music itself does not distinguish between sacred and vulgar. The difference lies in the content of lyrics, the type of music, the style of works, the place and object of use. Sacred music is based on theology, expressing theological significance and praising truth and doctrine. Not all music is sacred music. The original value of God's music creation is to glorify God! However, in the secular world, human beings gradually deviated from the value of music originally created by God. Calvin said that "if music is divorced from the belief in Christ, it will become the expression of lust, not the desire for God". Sacred music should sing theological meaning and be related to God.
2. Sacred music has educational function.
With the encouragement and guidance of poetry lyrics. Feeding believers will increase their confidence, love, closeness to God and willingness to serve.
3. Sacred music serves the sacred road.
In Ode to Rites and Music, we should feel the inner sacred way of sacred music, inherit the sacred way and praise the sacred way, so that people can get a deeper understanding in God's word. Music plays the role of expanding God's words, expanding God's path and connecting God's signals, and can also make up for the lack of human words, because God can't be expressed by sound. Augustine said, "God can't be described, but he can't be silent, so he can only sing."
Fifth, sacred music is the way to convey God.
We should use all kinds of wisdom to keep the truth of Christ in our hearts, teach each other with poems, eulogies and spiritual songs, admonish each other, give thanks to each other and sing praises to God. (Colossians 3: 16 and NIV)? God talks to people through hymns, and people talk to God through hymns. God conveys his love to us through hymns, and we respond to God through hymns.
The late conductor Magshun said, "If the choir can't sing a religious color, it is no different from the world and it is not worth the sacrifice."
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