Although I have been in touch with Chris for a while now over the Net, we have yet to meet! I found his blog online and have been interested in his content ever since. He is also a drummer seeking the heartbeat of God in everything we do and sheds a bit of reality in areas where sometimes we brush over so lightly we never get to the root of it all. Continue reading »
Some more thought-provoking stuff from Chris.
My favourite paragraph:
“I want to say that anything you do (within reason) in worship to God has as much value as anything else. So playing drums in a Drury Lane pit or in a function band at weddings is equally as valid an action as being in a worship team or playing in a Christian Band.”
Worship is anywhere and everywhere, all the time. I don’t get it right myself but the reality is I am not bound into thinking it’s just for church on Sunday!
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Posted with permission from Chris Beaumont.
Continuing my series on worship and culture, this week I wanted to look at the attitudes on what is sacred.
In the email that I mention in my first blog of the series the young man in question mentions that he wants to work in the Christian music industry or in a Christian band. My question is does God value this aspiration to work as “full-time Christian” more highly than he does working in the “secular” world?
An interesting article caught my eye and as I read it, a lot of it rang true. Although I see two sides to the story, it is an article that raises awareness of the ‘worship music industry’. There is no wrong or right but there are lines I believe… have those lines been crossed? Chris Beaumont, whose blog I read for interesting drumming stuff writes an article about the commercialisation of the worship music industry..this topic has always been on my heart so it’s refreshing to see someone else tackle it too!
Below is an excerpt from the beginning of the post and then a link to read the original post.
Posted with permission from Chris Beaumont.
Following on from my post last week, I have been mulling over the nature of worship as presented in contemporary Christian culture. A few months ago I saw an advertisement for well known worship leaders album saying something like this (see quote on right side)…
x presents their first studio album in x years. This album has ten of x’s most anointed songs plus two new songs.
Firstly what makes songs anointed? Does popularity make it anointed? Or is it a marketing moniker designed to make us want to buy a product? Secondly, why do you record a load of songs that people already know and love again? My thoughts are that the project is designed to make money, not resource the church, which is an excuse which is given to justify recording worship albums.
By Chris Beaumont
(Posted with permission)
Original article : http://www.heartheadhands.com/blogs.php?postID=100
I was in America on work last year with a colleague of mine who is the health and safety officer for my employer. Whilst in the bar of the hotel we were staying in, he noticed that I had more difficulty than most people in picking up conversation when other noise was in the background. I explained that I was a drummer and that I was slightly deaf in one ear. He then went on to inform me that I probably had reduced hearing in both ears and that the range of hearing particularly affected was that in which the human voice carries. This means that my wife will accuse me of ignoring her when she’s speaking to me because something else is making a noise in the background that I can hear better than her voice (this condition is handy on occasion!). I will never get this hearing back. It’s gone forever which makes me sad and a little obsessive about what’s left of my hearing. As Christians we are called to treat our bodies as temples and as worship musicians I think this particularly applies to our hearing. I know several people in worship teams who you have to shout at because most of their hearing has gone. The question is how do we prevent it?
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