Not What It Seems | Creator Magazine

It’s time to remind everyone that everything is not always what it seems. For instance, one of our most read articles of late is David Music‘s Top 10 Reasons to NOT Sing Hymns. If you haven’t read it, you should.

But when social media got hold of that article, there were a lot of snarky comments by people who loved hymns, and resented the “attack.” I knew they were having a knee-jeck reaction and hadn’t read the article. Why? Because the subheading of the article is “And Why They Are False.”

Does this mean that the snarky comment people are [fill in the blank]? Maybe…but there’s more to it than that. In a recent phone conversation with one of Creator’s writers, we talked about how we are so busy, societally, these days, that we’ve become “headline” people. We make inferences from the headline rather than take the time to read the story.

In ministry, that’s a slippery slope, because ministry involves people. And if you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you know that people are complicated. As my mother used to say, “you can’t judge a book by its cover…” And (notice the smooth transition) today’s article is another one of those that you can’t judge by the headline…

Today’s Article

Today’s article is by Stephen Phifer, who says Don’t Do A Christmas Production! Here’s an excerpt:

I am not an iconoclast—a reformer who destroys corrupted things and replaces them with new things. I am a renewalist—a reformer who seeks to purge impurities, restore artistic and spiritual integrities, and make wrong things right again. My views are based on the reform of big seasonal productions, not the destruction of them.

Can it be done? Yes. Should it be done? Only…
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Blessings…

P.S. THERE IS STILL SPACE AVAILABLE in my Choir In Modern Worship Masterclass in November at the Christian Musician Summit in the Seattle area…get more information or register for the day long event by clicking here.