Objecting to New Trends in Worship

There are several reasons for opposing it. One, it's too new. Two, it's often worldly. ... The new Christian music is not as pleasant as the more established style. Because there are so many new songs you can't learn them all. It puts too much emphasis on instrumental music rather than godly lyrics. This new music creates disturbances making people act indecently and disorderly. The preceding generation got along without it. It's a money-making scheme, and some of these new music upstarts are lewd and loose.

~ an American pastor (quoted by Matt Redman in

Worship Leader magazine, May 2006, p. 20)

date of the quote ... 1723