I think it really depends on the song. I understand the thoughts behind worshiping God vs. America, but many of the songs that would typically be used on a patriotic Sunday (America the beautiful, My Country Tis of Thee, Eternal Father Strong to Save) generally can be seen as prayers to God for our nation, not being sung about America.
The trouble I have is more stylistically fitting the partiotic songs in without making them feel out of place. We’re a very modern sound and to throw in just any old hymn can cause a drastic contrast that’s not always good.
If we’re not in the middle of a series that’s completely unrelated to patriotic themed music, then we’ll use one or two in with our regular songs, but we’ve also had years where we didn’t do any patriotic music. Those years we’ve used a special video at the time of our prayers, usually with some patriotic song included.
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June 30th, 2009 at 1:48 PMI think it really depends on the song. I understand the thoughts behind worshiping God vs. America, but many of the songs that would typically be used on a patriotic Sunday (America the beautiful, My Country Tis of Thee, Eternal Father Strong to Save) generally can be seen as prayers to God for our nation, not being sung about America.
The trouble I have is more stylistically fitting the partiotic songs in without making them feel out of place. We’re a very modern sound and to throw in just any old hymn can cause a drastic contrast that’s not always good.
If we’re not in the middle of a series that’s completely unrelated to patriotic themed music, then we’ll use one or two in with our regular songs, but we’ve also had years where we didn’t do any patriotic music. Those years we’ve used a special video at the time of our prayers, usually with some patriotic song included.
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