Matt Redman wrote an article in Worship Leader Magazine about a year ago. I ran across this quote recently.

“I recently came across the commend of an American pastor objectin to new trends in worship music:

‘There are several reasons for opposing it. One, it’s too new. Two, it’s often worldy….The new Christian music is not as pleasant as the more established style. Because there are so many new songs you can’t learn them all. It puts too much emphasis on instrumental music rather than godly lyrics. This new music creates disturbances making people act indecently and disorderly. The preceding generation got along without it. It’s a money-making scheme, and some of these new music upstarts are lewd and loose.’

Perhaps you’ve encountered this kind of comment before?”

This is not a recent comment aimed at recent worship music. When were these charges leveled? Who were they leveled toward? To see the answer, check the comments.