From: timk@world.std.com (Tim King)
Subject: Re: Spiritual Gifts
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:44:04 GMT

Hi, Carol!

>Thanks for the encouraging thoughts.

You're welcome.  What did I say?  Thanks for relating your experience.
It's actually kind of similar to what has been happening with our music
department/committee/whatever.  Some


>Wasn't Silent Night written for the guitar?

When I took German it was... or so said my German teacher.  He was actually
a really nice guy.  I took German in Jr. High, and I had a German teacher who
also taught Computer Science (what a combination, eh?)  I think he may have
also taught Math of some sort.  Anyhow, as it turns out, he was a christian!
But I digress...


We have been doing a monthly (well, almost monthly) Saturday night thingee.
There are five of us:  Nick, Mark, Billy, Margaret, and myself.  I'm hoping
that Tris, Nick's wife, will join, too.  She's already involved in Sunday
Morning worship, so she's already been stamped as qualified... so to speak.
Between us there's a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and drummer.  So far
our music has been well-received, and I'm thankful for that.  Also, I'm
finding that I can work with these guys, and I finally know how to learn
to work with others.

Despite the good attendance Saturdays, I still have an aching fear, almost
an agression, that if some people knew that we had *drums* in *their*
church...  But I know that the pastor, my father, and the deacons are
behind us.  And I certainly hope that they choose to take a stand, not
against those who would have us dismissed, but for our ministry and the
joy I know it brings to many of our people.

I have also heard some say that Sunday morning worship is boring, that we
shouldn't sing hymns, that the traditional style is outmoded.  Somehow,
though, it seems that this attitude is just as bad as the opposition.  I
like hymns!  Sometimes, yes, Sunday morning worship is boring... but I hope
that it's not always boring to everybody!  I know that even when we sing
nothing but hymns with traditional accompanyment I can enjoy myself.

I don't think it's in the hymns themselves, although I can't say where it
is or even that there *is* a problem.  Most traditional hymns were written
with incredible passion, and to capture and understand that emotion brings
a joy beyond compare.  Have you ever really comprehended the words of
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, My Soul Looks Up To Thee, or When I Survey
The Wondrous Cross?


>Perhaps offering guitar lessons through the church...get
>enough people interested in it and enjoying it.

Yeah!  That's it!  I like it!  Who'll teach 'em, though?  Hmmmm...


>Guitar music can be very beautiful.  I will pray the love of
>the members to accept the talents of all.  And for patience
>to wait on the Lord to put all the talents to use.

Thank you.

>Church is
>an appropriate place, but witnessing can be done using our
>talents outside of our church family.

Good point!  Hey, I wonder how Dee's doing.  Classic case in point:  She
is unconventional, emotional, LOUD (ugh!), and the best evangelist I've
ever met.  With her outgoing personality, strong faith, and position of
exposure, she won more people to the Lord in the time that she lived here
than any other person I know.  We had to get rid of her because our church
couldn't hold everybody!  :-)

-TimK
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