I noticed this week a magazine article critical of Southern Baptists. The article accurately reported that while our SBC baptisms for last year were up and new churches were planted, the overall SBC membership is down some. Like the scribes and Pharisees, this critic jumped on the membership decline and blamed it on the increased trend among Southern Baptist churches toward contemporary church music.
Only one problem. The contemporary churches are growing by leaps and bounds. It is the older, more traditional churches which have tended to decline.
At Delaney Street, we embrace the older, traditional music, and we enthusiastically add the newer, more contemporary music — to worship God together. All music was contemporary at one time. And all music will one day be traditional. The key is that the music we use uplifts the name of the Lord Jesus and brings us all closer to God in a spirit of worship.
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