Does your church ever use "non-live" musical accompaniment for congregational singing?

Ed Vasicek

Poll Results

Does your church ever use “non-live” musical accompaniment for congregational singing?

Yes, regularly, and we prefer it. Votes: 0
Yes, regularly, but we would prefer live music. Votes: 1
Yes, on occasion or rarely, but not typically Votes: 3
No, but we are open to the idea if the need arises Votes: 4
No, we would sing a capella before we would use digital or recorded music Votes: 8
Other Votes: 0

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Ellerslie Revisited

AaronWalker
http://ellerslie.com/Home.html

I read the Ellerslie thread and was surprised to see people were saying it was NOT a cult. Then I saw the thread was from 2009 and was hoping we can revisit it as they may have developed further in that direction since then. Here are my reasons for saying it is.

Theologically:

1. They teach that it is Satan that punishes us for sin.

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What I Love About Being a Pastor

SharperIron

This one goes back a few years but appeared most recently in Voice, May/June, 2012.

Recently, I listened to an edition of Pastor Pastor, a radio program just for pastors, sponsored by Focus on the Family. The theme was “What I like about being a pastor.” That theme really put its hand upon me, because usually programs geared to the pastor deal with negatives such as coping with problems.

Being a pastor, I am well aware of the myriad of difficulties associated with pastoral ministry. These tensions erode the passion of many ministers, driving them out of the ministry. I have heard that from the time a career pastor begins his ministry to the time he finds another vocation is fourteen years. Such a high attrition rate is alarming when you consider the many years of specialized training that pastors have sacrificed to obtain. Some pastors are out of the ministry before they have paid off their school loans.

I will not attempt to thoroughly analyze such a complex problem in this brief article, nor will I deal with it without a sympathetic heart. My goal is to provide a measure of help to pastors who simply do not like being pastors.

I believe that a big part of the problem is that pastors tend to focus on the negatives of the ministry (and there are many) rather than the positives (and there are many).

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