I don’t know...are we talking pipes or Hammond?

Clean the bathrooms! LIttle doses of organ music no problem… I’m praying for revival and spiritual awakenings.. could be talking L*O*N*G services… Annual is defined as once a year still right???

both of those options are equally disturbing. seeing as i’m not beholden to regular church attendance in the first place as a sacrament, i think that would be my cue to take a month off. so i’ll spend the next month laying by my pool, and you all can have fun with that choice.

I’d rather clean the bathrooms. That a least would be a ministry.  Having all organ all the time every service would be a punishment and kill our church.
I’m sure there are churches that would love it. In fact they have all organ all the time ALL THE TIME! And there are about fifty people in a santcuary that will hold 300.

clean the bathrooms, easily!

Organ, absolutely.  This takes me back to my days growing up in a Baptist church where we had an organ and piano and sung all the great hymns.  It’s really not as dull of an organ as some might think.

Wow, what a sad comment on Chrisendom’s lack of appreciation of beautiful and quality music!  This is not a choice, but a pathetic comparison of gold and, shall I use the word, dung??  Apparently our society has lowered its standards so greatly that the king of instruments is worse than cleaning a bathroom.  I’m offended!

Julie Smith (and others who sing the praises of an organ)…

I LOVE classical music, including (but not specifically) organ music. But too many of my people grew up in traditions where there was a lot of “pastoral” and “church” treatment that is legalistic to the point of being unloving. When they hear an organ hymn, they are transported back to that. In fact, I have to be very careful with the hymns for that very reason, too. That’s what I (and maybe some others) are talking about.

music director?

That is a great question.  In my experience, someone doing more contemporary music is way more open to “changing it up” to do traditional hymns, “a different way”, than someone who is very traditional, who is, again in my experience, far less likely to be open to having an electric guitar and drums in the sanctuary.

Worship is a response to God. In fact, it is OUR response to God. So if I’m using a style and form (as in traditional hymns) that isn’t “mine"… perhaps it’s not my response to God, and therefore, maybe it’s not even true worship!

Bathrooms, without question!

No contest!  I’d clean the bathrooms forever!
I have heard “good” organ music but there is no way I could last a whole month with just that...can you imagine singing How Great is Our God with an organ???!

Good question.  At first, I was going to say “Bathrooms” without hesitancy. However, after reading some of the other posts and thinking about it myself, I think I’d rather have the steady diet of the organ.  I’m always admonishing our church to get out of their comfort zone and open their mind to new ways of worship/music.  Sometimes, we should do the same by returning to an old way.  It’s really all a cycle anyway isn’t it?  Aren’t some of our most contemporary worship settings actually returning to VERY OLD hymns and worship styles?  We should open our minds the same way we ask our church to every week and allow God to move us throught a style that we may or may not be as comfortable with.

Not really excited about it right now...but let me grit my teeth and ask for the organ!

Julie said, “Wow, what a sad comment on Chrisendom’s lack of appreciation of beautiful and quality music!” Like other art forms, it is a matter of taste, so the fact that the majority of Christians who commented here (not all of Christendom) would prefer to clean the bathrooms than listen to organ music is not sad....or glad or bad or good.  It is just a musical preference.  The organ is not a sanctified instrument, so I don’t believe it’s helpful to find offense in other’s musical preferences.

Now, where are those gloves?  I’ve got a bathroom to clean..............