Praise songs for the musically ungifted?!?
I am a musician and singer on our church praise team. I've been musical my whole life (since I was 5) and, after I gave my life to the Lord, I gave up playing secular gigs (albeit after a couple of years of trying to keep one musical foot in the world and one in the kingdom. Not saying it's sinful; I was just called out of the secular music world as a performer, although I still listen to jazz, classical, opera, and the occasional classic country/ pop songs.)
Anyway, my point and question is this: I have no personal basis for understanding what a musically ungifted, perhaps even tone-deaf person "hears" when the praise music is being sung. Do such people "read" or mouth the words to themselves, under their breath, or perhaps even just in their hearts? When the congregation is caught up in the worship of the Lord singing, say, "How Great is Our God" by Chris Tomlin, what happens inside the heart/ head/ mind. spirit of someone without the gift of music? Do the lyrics alone affect you?
Praise songs for the musically ungifted?!?balletI love your question (especially since I just got blasted by Muslims on another question when I insisted that music is a gift from God and not a sin--8 thumbs down and counting. Apparently in Islam it is a sin. So sad for them).
A lot of tone-deaf people don't know they are! There's no way to really know what they hear (that would be an interesting scientific study). Some of them can hear the music as it is, but they simply can't or never learned to match pitch, so they can't sing in tune. I think it is precious when someone can't sing in tune but sings so loudly just because they want to praise God!
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