Do You Like Planet Shakers

[aussiecorey]

Do You Like Planet Shakers and there music?
What songs do you like?

 

[PrincessFromOz]

Yes... I do! I've been to the church in Melbourne once, and it was good... I also like the music. My fave songs are Evermore (although this is being sung waaaay too much at our church!) and I like Don't Pass Me By.

I also really like United! "Look to You" was the best album I've heard in a long time...

But sorry, this is a PlanetShakers thread!

 

[Lil'_Miss_Princess_Aimz]

planetshakers is awesome!

my favourite songs r off the newest album,and the album before that.. both r sooo good!

 

[J23]

Yep, great music. I wish we played Planet Shakers in our church.

 

[grateful heart]

Love em

 

[JFreak89]

Yeh, i enjoyed the Planet Shakers Conferrence in Brissy this year, (brissy was the biggest conference)

I have quite a few of thier albums and now play all the songs from their new album "Arise" on piano etc.

think they sometimes have a bit too much emphasis on music, but still not too bad

 

[KristianJ]

I'm pretty neutral on them...having heard their new album a few times by virrtue of the overhead music at work, some of the songs seem a bit too loaded with "I will"'s and don't seem as cross-centered as one might hope for. Just my 2c though - as long as their message is true to the Bible, then cool

 

[marduke]

im a bit over PS at the moment... ive been getting more into Mercy Me, Third Day, M.W.Smith etc praise and worship..

 

[thejesusfish90]

The only planet shakers conference I attended was the Perth conference last year, and although I thought some of their music was decent I didn't really like one particular song, which went something like: "Everybody jump around in the house of God... Jump Jump Jump around,... Somebody get your praise on"... I just thought the song placed too much emphasis on getting hyped up, and having fun, as opposed to worshiping our awesome God- although I do appreciate the fact that they are trying to market music which will appeal to the wider teenage audience, I just thought this song was taking it too far...

YBIC

Chris

 

[winglovesall]

Planet Shakers is amazing - God spoke to me there.

 

[J23]

The only planet shakers conference I attended was the Perth conference last year, and although I thought some of their music was decent I didn't really like one particular song, which went something like: "Everybody jump around in the house of God... Jump Jump Jump around,... Somebody get your praise on"... I just thought the song placed too much emphasis on getting hyped up, and having fun, as opposed to worshiping our awesome God- although I do appreciate the fact that they are trying to market music which will appeal to the wider teenage audience, I just thought this song was taking it too far...

I know what you mean. They seem to really emphasise the screaming/jumping side of things, and crowd participation in general.

 

[beautifully_chaotic]

you need to understand that planetshakers is for young ppl, but its also used as a evangelization tool, also the particuar song you are talking about is a praise song, and there is a definant difference between praise and worship

 

[-Kyriaki-]

been for two years. i'll be the unpopular person in this thread and say i didn't like it.

i'm a charismatic - but not a raving, prosperity doctrine, lose your mind every service pentecostal. i speak in tongues - but i believe there's an order for it. i tithe, as God leads me, not because i'm guilt-tripped by someone up the front - particularly when i paid $50 to come in the first place!

i also think the music gets very people focussed and not God focussed, and that annoys me - worship is about God, not us! any song with "I" in it repeatedly (except stuff like i love you Lord) annoys me. anything with the word "me" or "my" in it tends to be a warning sign for me...and they're very good at these things. sermons tend to be very sensationalised and emotionally driven too, and i don't like people messing with my head like that. my choices are my own, not something chosen for me by someone who's got me into an emotional frenzy.

so no, i don't like them much.

 

[aussiecorey]

been for two years. i'll be the unpopular person in this thread and say i didn't like it.

i'm a charismatic - but not a raving, prosperity doctrine, lose your mind every service pentecostal. i speak in tongues - but i believe there's an order for it. i tithe, as God leads me, not because i'm guilt-tripped by someone up the front - particularly when i paid $50 to come in the first place!

i also think the music gets very people focussed and not God focussed, and that annoys me - worship is about God, not us! any song with "I" in it repeatedly (except stuff like i love you Lord) annoys me. anything with the word "me" or "my" in it tends to be a warning sign for me...and they're very good at these things. sermons tend to be very sensationalised and emotionally driven too, and i don't like people messing with my head like that. my choices are my own, not something chosen for me by someone who's got me into an emotional frenzy.

so no, i don't like them much.

Everyone has there opinions
But i go to the church and i know the somoe of the musisans and trust me they love god and there music is written for god and not anyone else adn its such a big church with evryone loving God and you really need to look at Planet Shkaers the ppl who say the dont like there praise songs look at the words and chanhge it in to a worship song and then you wouldprob like its not all about how it sung its about the words

 

[-Kyriaki-]

worship is more than singing a certain type of lyrics or music.

and i've no doubt that they love God, but loving God (except for in a sensationalised hyped up way) isn't what i get from the conferences. it all seems very person focused rather than God focused.

i'm from adelaide - planet shakers started here, and i've met a lot of the people in the band. they're nice people and i'm sure they love God. but it's moved from a conference to learn and worship God to a hyped up religious experience that people want to attend(people focused), complete with calling down God's Spirit into the place (He is everywhere - a short 'be welcome in this place' is fine but half an hour screaming your lungs out so you can "call God down"???)

that's my 2c

 

[skinnybrad]

im with Marduke on this one im more of a worship kinda guy when its bands that i like... for example i LOVE Offerings by Third Day and Adoration by Newsboys

 

[jazzcat7]

I am from Adelaide and attended for many years the church where Planet Shakers was birthed. I see what you are saying. I think the songs are a bit focused at young teens (I work with teenagers and I know they need to sometimes let them have a bit of fun and jump around so they will sit quiet during the sermon). (*Yet at the same time when David danced before the Lord his wife thought he was nuts sometimes something is of God but as onlookers we can judge it be careful*). Therefore too I think some of the lyrics are a bit simplistic at times. I've gotten older now and am not so into PS music. Yet I have an appreciation for some of it all the same. I think if you can dance in a nightclub or shout at the top of your lungs in a football game and the world has no problem with that. Why not in church? I think too we as Australians get very apathetic at times and just expect God to move. Sometimes we do need to need to get desperate in seeking God. To really see something change in our hearts and lives. If screaming for half an hour builds faith in a group of teenagers and puts their focus and attention solely on seeking or and praising God for half and hour. (and I'm sure some have ADD and may have trouble otherwise hehe!) Then let them go! I also think prosperity doctrine aside Australians sometimes can be pretty stingy. Our God is a generous God and he calls us to be the same. He loved us all so much He GAVE HIS ONLY SON. Plenty of kids have life changing experiences in conferences like Planet Shakers. Kids that may have been backslidden. Kids that were not on fire for God. Kids that didn't really understand who God was. Churches have been turned upside down by the giving encouraged in the conferences. Money can have such a hold on us. We must learn not to let money rule us but learn that in God we can rule money. Not so we can be rich necessarily but so we have more and more to give into the ministry so we can see people reach mission fields for Jesus. Spread the gospel to distant lands. To the poor and unreached. Another big thing that Planet Shakers encourages is for kids to sponsor children through world vision or compassion... As well as to get involved themselves in Missions trips. Some young people go to PS and come back with dreams that God has placed in their hearts about being missionaries or reaching the poor or unreached. Ok I'm not saying that PS doesn't have faults. Or that it is bad to question things at times. It is good to have healthy discussion. Yet lets not throw the baby out with the bath water. Lets at least be honest about the good things that come out of these things as well. Lets still encourage the Youth around us to go to these things. Sometimes we will find too that just because it's not for us or not our style doesn't mean God can't use it for His glory in somebody elses life.

Just a thought!

 

[KristianJ]

you need to understand that planetshakers is for young ppl, but its also used as a evangelization tool, also the particuar song you are talking about is a praise song, and there is a definant difference between praise and worship

There's no difference, really - both are supposed to be a response to God, bringing the focus on Him who deserves it.

 

[mystery4]

been for two years. i'll be the unpopular person in this thread and say i didn't like it.

i'm a charismatic - but not a raving, prosperity doctrine, lose your mind every service pentecostal. i speak in tongues - but i believe there's an order for it. i tithe, as God leads me, not because i'm guilt-tripped by someone up the front - particularly when i paid $50 to come in the first place!

i also think the music gets very people focussed and not God focussed, and that annoys me - worship is about God, not us! any song with "I" in it repeatedly (except stuff like i love you Lord) annoys me. anything with the word "me" or "my" in it tends to be a warning sign for me...and they're very good at these things. sermons tend to be very sensationalised and emotionally driven too, and i don't like people messing with my head like that. my choices are my own, not something chosen for me by someone who's got me into an emotional frenzy.

so no, i don't like them much.

I agree with you. Why is it generally assumed that all youth/teens like that sort of music/worship?

 

[mystery4]

Jazzcat you may have a point. I know plenty of people who don't like the charismatic style of worship, who find that its too person focused and based upon feeling a spiritual "high" all the time. And yet I also know people who like that style and find it helps them. But what I want to know is, does it please God when I act and jump around like that? Does what I do in my praise and worship glorify God or satisfy my own desires?

The idea of having a "mosh" pit in church or a Christian service repulses me. To me all I see is the influence of the secular world in the church instead of the influence of the church in the world.