music form vs substance

I recently heard an older person speaking to put down some of the more modern music because it was so electrified. Thinking back, I can't believe I was hearing this. Why can't some older people get past the form of the music to what it is saying? And I don't think this put down was just to say he didn't like it, it was to say it was bad or wrong.
I am here to affirm all of you younger musicians to keep making good music in all of its forms, electrified, acoustic, digitized, sonified, beat boxed, and any other form. God is not scared of music that awakens or expresses the passions of humans, for He is wilder and much less civilized than anyone would want to believe, and much more so than any human, excpet one, has ever been. I think that is one reason Jesus was born in a food trough in a barn; God was quite at home there and not ashamed or feeling put out or frightened at all. After all, He is the creator of the wilds of this world, and if we cannot make music that reflects our passions, we are not expressing something of the depth of the human spirit, and our music is all the more shallow for it. So electrified music is able to get at a power and passion and volume of life that acoustic music just can't do.
Right now I am listening to one of my favorite songs of all time: Sleeping Awake by POD. Electrified, yes, loud, yes, powerful, yes, worth hearing, every time.
So to you musicians, keep making good music of all kinds.
To those among us who believe the only holy music is soft and somber and acoustic, wake up. You are wrong. The bible in fact recommends music of praise with resounding cymbals. Those are loud and not everyone likes them. No where can we find the Bible saying music must be soft, but we do hear it telling us it should be loud, at least at times. And it should be skillful. God is much more interested in the heart or content of the music than the form. Period.

church life for One Another

I am beginning to realize that most of the one another verses in scripture, which are about the true life of the christian in the body, are not easily obeyed when we "do" church. Fellowship on Sunday mornig is more about being an observer than about serving each other, with a couple obvious exceptions: the Pastor and the worship team. Now this may primarily be in how I have experienced "church", but I am realizing I need the body life to be more full and vibrant. If you watch my facebook I am going to put all of the one another verses day after day. Think about where we actually practice these. Love one another. How do we as the church do that? I know we do some, but when our realtionships are limited to sunday and an occasional time some other time, it does not work. We need time together. Encourage one another. Unless we really know one another, how do we do that? Serve one another. Unless we are with each other and know the needs we have, we cannot obey this. etc.
I think the missional approach to church life as seen in the book "The Tangible Kingdom" points to a better way to be the body that helps us obey the one another verses. I am going to be working toward a different way to do church life in our youth group.