Posted on January 30, 2020 by Dr. Will Whittaker
Last night I was approached by an octogenarian woman during our family night meal. She looked me dead in the face and said something to the effect of, “Will, you’ve made me learn to love contemporary music.” As I’ve thought about this over the… Continue Reading “You’ve Made me Learn to Love Contemporary Music”
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Posted on January 2, 2020 by Dr. Will Whittaker
I was recently reading a dialogue in a Facebook group I’m a part of that basically said that folks under 35 only want to sing worship music in church like Passion/Bethel/Hillsong, to name a few, while folks over 65 only wanted to sing traditional… Continue Reading “Generation X: Tolerant of All Types of Church Music?”
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Posted on August 22, 2019 by Dr. Will Whittaker
If music preferences were eliminated, there would be no need for separate types of worship services.
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“Intergenerational Worship” is worship in which people of every age are understood to be equally important.
Howard Vanderwell