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To quote from a saloon champion at a Gospel Music Association awards show a decade ago, "That is absolutely true, Mitchell."
"Feminising the church" is weakening The Christ into something they want Him to be, and not what He was. That quote could be perfectly suited in talking about feminising the church.
No wonder churches have been infiltrated with romantic sappy love songs instead of strong sacred anthems, teen girls dancing to such wasteful tunes have replaced choirs singing Bach's Passion, Haydn's Creation (which I've seen a few times), Händel's Messiah (I've seen a few times, did some singalongs, and had a one-off with a Charleston church as a guest tenor in the choir), and other strong sacred masterworks. Last week at the county fair, four churches offered their music services for "talent". Three were teenage girls dancing to secularised pop tunes, and one was that and puppet routines to similar music. The Gideons in town weren't too happy about it when I told them about it while having a steak at the Kiwanis Steak House.
If the church music leaders believe watching four girls dancing to a now-defunct dance-pop trio that Hannah Montana's dad couldn't pronunce the name properly or to secularised pop tunes with karaoke, but singing Bach, Händel, Wesley, and Watts is not appropriate, let alone having a strong organist playing these sacred songs of faith, what gives?
Are we telling our kids to forget learning to sing and instead teaching them to dance MTV style for church? These effects are of what Dorothy Sayers' quote has wrought when we "pare the claws".
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