I will, in the future, continue to create liturgies, in many genres. I hope I can jump out of the hoop! I think every new service has a good effect on a congregation — I have seen it happen — it is quite wonderful.
But most congregations, especially our Lutheran ones, are reluctant to try new things. When they do, they are very excited! I hope that we can have a new movement within the church that can rise up and start CREATING new music from within. I vow to be part of that movement — it’s a real passion of mine… I think there are so many kids out there with talent — and young adults, etc., that could be encouraged to be something besides just pianists and organists.
There are young musicians just waiting to be asked to help, to play, to write music, to be involved. We just have to do it! A new liturgy can create that new atmosphere, where they might be integrated. Or an opportunity to write something, or play something, for the service… But we all have to be open!
The church tends to close doors instead of open them. I keep knocking, but there are many doors to go:) I have had some incredible conversations with many people in the ELCA about the relationship between adults and children in the church, as mitigated by music, and have heard the same things as I have voiced here, over and over again.
But few have the courage to move. The new book of worship is full of songs that are scarcely playable, hard to sing, and not accessible to non-musicians or appealing to young adults… Why do we continue to ask the staid, tried composers of the church to write our music when it doesn’t express our living worship body?
Young people in the church are HUNGERING for AUTHENTIC.
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