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Writing a New Song
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By Stephen Moor

Artist/Writer: Stephen Moor
Everywhere I go I witness a reoccurring phenomenon: people like singing songs they know. Also, communities cling to songs and attach to them a certain sense of identity. This may be why churches split so often over worship styles. The traditionalists seem to see the dominance of new songs as a betrayal of old roots; roots that spread far and have been sent deep with great effort.

In the throes of this conflict many churches split along generational lines. When this happens, immense treasures are lost within congregations. The progressives lose the wisdom of the traditionalists who often prove to have more experience and greater stability. The traditionalists lose the driving force to push ahead to new undiscovered frontiers of experience and growth. Instead they become content where they are or remain stagnant as in-the-box thinkers.

I have made it one of my goals to try and bridge this divide. I want both parties to be fed and to learn from each other. This happens when everyone works together, mixing both the new and the old; the changing and the static. I have written "You Are Holy" as a prime example of what I'm trying to say. It draws the two elements under the umbrella of poetry in the hope that it will stimulate new dialog among God's family.

Listen to You Are Holy
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