What christian songs do you sing and listen to?

[chris42]

Hey,

What songs are people listening and playing in their churches, are the majority of songs you sing made by Hillsong and CCC, or your own churches?

Chris

 

[Droobie]

We do a lot of Hillsongs, Hosanna, Vineyard... and introducing others like CLC Coffs Harbour, PlanetShakers, Deliriou5 etc...

 

[mamaneenie]

Our church plays mostly Hillsong (I'm not a huge fan, but won't go into details as there have been debates on this forum about hillsong) Sometimes there have been people in our church write their own songs, but lately it's mostly hillsong. Whatever happened to those short and sweet simple choruses that people can sing easily? That is my favourite style of song to sing because you can get lost in the worship because you don't have to keep looking at the screen for the words lol.


At home I love Vineyard big time. In fact I had a good CD which was in Daniels room to help him go to sleep when he was a baby and R pinched it and put it in the car. He said it helped calm him down when he was going to work and coming home from work. I've pinched it back and find it calms me down in the evening when I am cooking dinner and Dan is getting tired lol. It is a great worship CD and brings a lovely atmosphere into the house.

 

[chris42]

Yeah, we have a few hillsong songs at our church, but majority of songs are songs that our church members have written. Our church just released their albulm in Dec, and I find it absolutely amazing. Get totally lost in the worship. But yeah we also have songs from CCC, youth alive and other groups, which is good in that we don't just have one type of song all the time.

 

[elm1976]

Our church uses the source music books, so we sing a real variety. The previous church we went to did alot of there own worship music, even brought out a CD which my hubbie was involved in the music on.

I like a bit of everything. We usually have the WOW Cd series playing in the stacker, the gospel, worship and contem stuff. Also listen to the local christian radio station regularly. Also a lover of Michael W Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman etc. My family owns a Christian Bookshop so we have good access to cds at wholesale prices.

 

[mamaneenie]

MIchael W Smith, we play the new one in the car. Daniel loves one of the songs that the chorus goes "everywhere I go I see you" Dan sings "eywhere I see you, eywhere I see you" It was one of his first songs lol.

 

[Sharky]

lots of hillsong songs. Some from delirious i think.

 

[Icystwolf]

The songs in our church goes through a huge testing process before it can be sung in church. If it doesn't meet the requirements of the Scriptures, then it's not fit....

But my favorite ones are still the Catholic songs....back in primary school and highschool....because they have emotion, meaning, theme, some sort of destiny and great rhythm... so far, nothing has knocked those songs off my top list....

. Whatever happened to those short and sweet simple choruses that people can sing easily?

Thats my type of song!!!

I'm an anti-hillsong songs...I've always liked songs with craftmanship & creativity mixed in together, rather than creativity and style->which I think is what hillsong is achieving.....but I'll leave it at that, don't feel like arguing today.....lol....

 

[lil_one]

We sing alot of Hillsong songs and planetshakers.
I love th Hillsong music, although you can't listen to it all the time. I guess i like it because its like pop music and thats what i usually listen to...
I also love the different words and stuf like that... it may take a little longer to learn it, but its SO worth it!!!
I quite like planetshakers too, plus Guy is singing on the CD too... which is really quite nice!!!

 

[Icystwolf]

yeh, why doesn't guy make a Christian album?

 

[Bevlina]

I must admit to my love for the catholic hymns. Not any about Mary though!
Apart from that. Hossanaimusic is beautiful. I like Paul Wilbur. But, there are so many to choose from now one can get confused.
I wouldn't be interested in Guy making a christian album because I don't understand all the wooooooooooooing, that turns me off. I believe a hymn should be sung so that all can sing it. So, I'll stick to the ones I have.

 

[elm1976]

MIchael W Smith, we play the new one in the car. Daniel loves one of the songs that the chorus goes "everywhere I go I see you" Dan sings "eywhere I see you, eywhere I see you" It was one of his first songs lol.

Josh is in to singing in the car too. Usually its Colin, but it is amazing how quickly he will pick up the chorus of what is on. It is so cute hearing his little voice singing in the back. Its up their with the best mummy moments.

 

[Sharky]

I must admit to my love for the catholic hymns. Not any about Mary though!
Apart from that. Hossanaimusic is beautiful. I like Paul Wilbur. But, there are so many to choose from now one can get confused.
I wouldn't be interested in Guy making a christian album because I don't understand all the wooooooooooooing, that turns me off. I believe a hymn should be sung so that all can sing it. So, I'll stick to the ones I have.

Not me. I like to jump and go nuts at LOUD christian songs
I wouldnt' mind a bit of hymms too. Haven't heard them in ages.

 

[lil_one]

Going nuts and stuff is so good!!!!
I love it, you can clap your hands and dance around.... SO much fun!!!

 

[Bevlina]

Yeah...this is where pentecostal is no nice as everyone is outgoing and happy. I like that.

 

[Wolflily]

For personal listening, I love a lot of the contemporary Christian music, but not so much the easily accessible "pop" like Amy Grant and Michael W Smith. I do like the Hillsongs music, but I can only take small doses - a little too much emphasis on the "me" perspective at times. I am nuts about the David Crowder Band, the Enter the Worship Circle cd's (lots of percussion ) and right now I'm seriously loving Todd Agnew's "Grace Like Rain" cd, which is phenomenal. I'm getting into Jill Phillips, Yancy, Sarah Groves, oh, the list just goes ON and ON...Never has Christianity had such a feast of music to delve into, huh?

At our church, we play a ton of contemporary but we're really getting into re-introducing more modern versions of classic hymns - I'm seeing a serious sway back to the hymns in Christian music, which is awesome!! Too much contemporary Christian music has become very worldly in it's desire to reach out to all kinds of people. I love the hymns because they are more profound, were often written from intense personal experience of God's saving Grace, and a humble view of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

 

[mamaneenie]

I was brought up in the Anglican church, so I really love some of the hymns, because I grew up on that stuff.

The only reason I ended up going to a pentecostal church, was because at the time, there were no young people in the church, it was all young families and seniors, there were no teens, so I switched churches for a while, then moved to Canberra and obviously still going to a pentecostal church, I've been going to the same one for 5 years now.

 

[Wolflily]

I have cousins and aunts who are Pentecostal. Their church is a little too "holy-rollin" for me - I saw people flopping about in the aisles and screaming blue bloody murder, and didn't feel that kind of out-of-control behavior was from the Lord.(I also have the gift of discernment, and can sense immediately when something is from the Holy Spirit and when it isn't)

What is your experience with that kind of thing at your church, Mamaneenie?

 

[mamaneenie]

I have cousins and aunts who are Pentecostal. Their church is a little too "holy-rollin" for me - I saw people flopping about in the aisles and screaming blue bloody murder, and didn't feel that kind of out-of-control behavior was from the Lord.(I also have the gift of discernment, and can sense immediately when something is from the Holy Spirit and when it isn't)

What is your experience with that kind of thing at your church, Mamaneenie?

Aaaah, yes, this sort of thing comes up all the time. I do believe that sometimes God uses these manifestations for his work. I do believe that sometimes people fall down in the spirit and that is when the Holy Spirit does a lot of his work. I personally have been healed from things like this. I had a few bad memories from things that happened to me as a child, which the Holy Spirit helped to heal. Also, I do believe that sometimes there is deliverance which happens, which could explain the screaming.

However, I also believe that sometimes people do it to show off and pretend a little. It is not up to me to judge though.

 

[Bevlina]

Yeah....often I wonder about it that too. If anybody started screaming in a church where I was I'd start screaming too, as I headed for the door. I just can't accept that Father would use such public performances. I do remember once when I couldn't stop laughing. I laughed for 3 days,so, I had to stay by myself for 3 days. And, that was due to a prayer one lady was saying and it happened in a private house which was her's.
I do know a woman they were trying to convert was taken to a Pentecostal church in Bendigo. All went well until the end when the pastor was trying to cast demons out of a woman and she was writhing on the floor screaming in public. But, it ended her conversion. But, to her credit she did pray. She looked at the woman and said "Jesus Christ!" then fled.