Food relates to everything
Adrienne Sandvos says in a piece for Radiant magazine (based in Orlando, for Christian twenty-something females).
We tend to fall back on song when we want to worship. It’s easier, I suppose, than employing other art forms which require a whole lot more materials than a voice and the memory of the song you want to sing. But relying on those songs is like ordering the exact same dish every time you go out to eat. There’s a whole world of food out there, and you keep settling for spaghetti. In the same way, seeking variety in our worship allows us to connect to God in a totally different way.
What she doesn't point out is that we draw our worship practices from observing worship in the Bible, specifically formal worship. (David's dance at the return of the ark was not formal worship.) We aren't "falling back" on music, we are following the pattern laid out for us. Generally the church has taken the second commandment as a warning against the visual arts in the sanctuary. Singing "Lord I Lift Your Name on High" every week is like always getting spaghetti. But flipping through the Cantus is more like reading the menu at West of Paris. (And an interesting choice of verbs--that Sandvos uses the vocabulary of ordering rather than of giving and receiving or being ordered. That paradigm in itself needs examining.) Besides the main meal is the bread and the wine.
We tend to fall back on song when we want to worship. It’s easier, I suppose, than employing other art forms which require a whole lot more materials than a voice and the memory of the song you want to sing. But relying on those songs is like ordering the exact same dish every time you go out to eat. There’s a whole world of food out there, and you keep settling for spaghetti. In the same way, seeking variety in our worship allows us to connect to God in a totally different way.
What she doesn't point out is that we draw our worship practices from observing worship in the Bible, specifically formal worship. (David's dance at the return of the ark was not formal worship.) We aren't "falling back" on music, we are following the pattern laid out for us. Generally the church has taken the second commandment as a warning against the visual arts in the sanctuary. Singing "Lord I Lift Your Name on High" every week is like always getting spaghetti. But flipping through the Cantus is more like reading the menu at West of Paris. (And an interesting choice of verbs--that Sandvos uses the vocabulary of ordering rather than of giving and receiving or being ordered. That paradigm in itself needs examining.) Besides the main meal is the bread and the wine.
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