Well, in one word, the answer to that question is an emphatic NO! Tradition worship has its place even in today’s world. Is it for everyone? I don’t think so. For some reason, people look at was is older than them and think it’s bad. You may not like it, but it doesn’t mean it’s bad. I was having a conversation about this very thing with my dad and he was telling me that when he was young, they used to hear the stuff that his parents listened to and thought it was weird.  Some of us have looked back at the music of the 70′s and thought “really???” We always look to the things before us with sort of a mindset that that’s old and everything we do now is so much better.

So how should we approach traditional worship today? Well, we MUST have a healthy appreciation for it in order to express our love for the whole body of Christ. Our older body members are still important to the body. Sometimes we tend to push them to the side after a while, and they still have great validity. How do we handle this situation, well, that may be different from a church to church basis. However, I will tell you this. If you don’t respect them, you are automatically bringing tension within the body that can never be beneficial. Plus, if you listen long enough, you might learn something from those who have been around awhile. Church doesn’t have to be about reinventing the wheel. But we can do things to make it continue to roll. Whether  you want to believe it or not, traditional music was contemporary at one point. It knows a little bit about rolling…