I suppose there's lots of opportunity to write about bunches of stuff. After all, the way music and the Bible relate is a broad landscape of varying categories.
But what do you want to discuss, or know more about, or bring the Bible to bear upon?
Let me know and I can direct my efforts in ways that would really help the readers of this blog. God has put us all in different places, with different circumstances and different challenges. I would love to know what those are, and at least attempt to tackle them.
So please give me your ideas!
(And perhaps give me some ideas for a future book on church music...?)
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Hey Clint. Thanks for this blog. We really do need a SAfrican thinking hard about church music and giving us guidance. As music director - I prefer CEO or President :) - at our church, some of the issues I'd like to discuss are:
ReplyDelete- how to encourage physical expression and emotion in a conservative church context (without artifically putting it on)
- good resources for singing the Psalms - something that seems to be lacking in the current mix of church music (I know Sov Grace have an album of Psalms)
- how to uncover new talent without having a musical "altar call" ... volunteers are often very poor judges of their own ability!
- how we can get our good African songs compiled into a collection and transposed to sheet music. There is a wealth of good stuff out there, but I haven't come across a resource that I could use to teach African songs to our congregation. At best, I'm having do it as an English, whitey with a bad memory. Dangerous!
@Nils
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for that. I will attempt to address those over the next few weeks. It's great to have other South African musicians who are thinking enough about their ministry to crystalize the problems faced.