Comments on: Just Ask– Part 2 http://www.as4me.net/2007/07/11/just-ask-part-2/ Thinking through the process of finding wisdom. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michelle http://www.as4me.net/2007/07/11/just-ask-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Michelle Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:11:58 +0000 http://www.as4me.net/2007/07/11/just-ask-part-2/#comment-432 Thanks for the insight into the mind of a non-singer. :)It's helpful. I guess I'm coming from the idea that singing is a part of corporate worship. If only the good singers are singing, it's not corporate. It doesn't seem to be about enjoying the music; music in the church is about directing praise to God. It's one of the dangers of having a good music program at a church, I think. It becomes easy for people to view the music as a spectator event. On the other hand, I think one can pray silently along with an individual who is praying, so perhaps one can think or sing the music in the same way. I have done that when I've been sick and not able to sing (although I'm so distractible it's difficult). I'll have to think on this some more. Thanks, Shelley! Thanks for the insight into the mind of a non-singer. :) It’s helpful.

I guess I’m coming from the idea that singing is a part of corporate worship. If only the good singers are singing, it’s not corporate. It doesn’t seem to be about enjoying the music; music in the church is about directing praise to God. It’s one of the dangers of having a good music program at a church, I think. It becomes easy for people to view the music as a spectator event. On the other hand, I think one can pray silently along with an individual who is praying, so perhaps one can think or sing the music in the same way. I have done that when I’ve been sick and not able to sing (although I’m so distractible it’s difficult). I’ll have to think on this some more. Thanks, Shelley!

]]> By: Shelley Gallamore http://www.as4me.net/2007/07/11/just-ask-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Shelley Gallamore Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:47:38 +0000 http://www.as4me.net/2007/07/11/just-ask-part-2/#comment-431 After reading your post, I ask my 10 year old son who doesn't sing (at church, at school choir, anywhere) why he doesn't and got the reply "I do sing, just not very loudly." I said it often didn't look like he was singing and he said, "I'm not good at singing, so I sing quietly." I found it interesting that he thinks he is singing, when his mouth clearly isn't moving. But, many of the men in my family don't sing much in church although they all claim to enjoy music, so I haven't worried about it. After reading your post, I ask my 10 year old son who doesn’t sing (at church, at school choir, anywhere) why he doesn’t and got the reply “I do sing, just not very loudly.” I said it often didn’t look like he was singing and he said, “I’m not good at singing, so I sing quietly.”
I found it interesting that he thinks he is singing, when his mouth clearly isn’t moving. But, many of the men in my family don’t sing much in church although they all claim to enjoy music, so I haven’t worried about it.

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