Everyone has there preferences in musical genres - acoustic, metal, rap, folk, pop, classical, etc. However, you can't say that one genre is the worship or church music genre. While you might have a style of music that helps you connect with Jesus, the problem is there is such a wide variety of music and everyone else has there own personal way of connect with Jesus. This is very personal so it is understandable why people don't agree about music.
God created the arts as a personal expression. One genre might be more personal but isn't more worshipful. In the Bible, the book of Psalms is the music book and it talks about everything from mediation to shouting. The Psalms are songs and poetry...some are introspective, some are confessions, some are celebrations, some are quiet prayers, some of national anthems of praise to God for who He is and what He has done. If you look throughout church history, music has changed. If you consider the church globally, music is very different (like the women singing in Africa). It is interesting to see that hymns on the organ are now defined as church music, but at one time the same song on the organ was bar music. The words were just rewritten for the church.
For The Journey, you can hear some variety in genre - we've even done bluegrass - but overall we have
a rock/pop (think Daughtry or Jeremy Camp) flavor. While many church lean towards introspective, acoustic, classical/traditional, or 80's soft pop, we feel like rock identifies with a majority of our area (according to surveys in and outside our church). However, we throw in some country for the same reason.
Music is personal, but no one genre is more worshipful than the other. So if it is a hymn or hip hop, what makes it worshipful music is your focus.
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