Dul (or Dool) is two in Korean.
I’m getting rather sick of this whole worship debate/battle my church. One camp grumbles that we don’t sing enough hymns and the other wonders why the first group cares what songs are sung. Personally, I just wonder why we only seem to sing the same songs each week and I while I enjoy the hymns, I do understand that others enjoy other styles.
Recently I’ve been taking notice of the worship director’s words when she’s speaking to the congregation. Her speeches have a condescending air to them, basically slapping around her nay-sayers. These speeches normally consist of her telling everyone that we shouldn’t allow our personal tastes in music dictate how we worship God on Sunday mornings. I find this both funny and sickening. Funny and sick because by her choosing certain songs that she finds “worshipful” isn’t she doing the same thing she’s lambasting?
In a recent article in the church’s newsletter1 (page 4), she ends up calling those who enjoy and would like to listen to older styles of music in church, basically dead. That is, since they don’t like the newer styles, they slowly killing themselves and the church (in that newer, younger folks won’t come to church because of that). But why do this to the people who are part of the church? Why disregard their wants and needs for the sake of those that may come? If you disregard those you have, you’ll end up losing the current members and in the future the newcomers, who will turn into the “old music” folks after a while.
Why is this an all or nothing ordeal? Why can’t both styles be represented? Why can’t both the needs of the current/old and new members be met? Is it an impossibility to have an equal amount of old and new?