Is it popular nowadays for people to sing while they are on the john?
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very popular..rap as you crap
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Though I myself DO support the use of musical instruments in music, I am sad to see how many people who are not informed about the historical debate on this quickly toss the "LEGALIST" label a person whose views differ from their own. \n\nFolks, this discussion goes back centuries, and for many centuries congregational worship, in fact, did NOT use instruments.   So don't be so dismissive.  Try to figure out WHY people have this view, and even if you don't share it you may learn something.   And it has specifically to do with God's commands concerning the organized WORSHIP of HIM, not every specific thing we do in our lives.   \n\nSOME FONDATIONS:\n\n1) The core issue is HOW does God himself direct us to worship in ways that are in keeping with his revealed character?  Whatever "freedom" we have in worship, we are NOT free before God to decide to use any and every form we dream up or see others using.  That's what is behind the second commandment prohibition of idols -- not simply of worshiping other gods, but of trying to use idols to worship the TRUE God!  And the Law also declares "you are not to worship me in the way they worship their gods", that is, God's people are not simply to adopt whatever worship practices they may see the pagans doing.   \n\nThese basic truths DO still apply, even if the OT sacrificial-temple system does not.  They are expressed in Jesus' words "God is SPIRIT and those who worship him must worship him in s/Spirit and in t/Truth [Jn 4:24, cf Phlp 3:1-2 which relates this to the Spirit of God and to worshping CHRIST... who is the Truth].  In other words, the WORSHIP of God must be consistent with the revealed NATURE of God.    \n\n2) An other thing to keep in view --as the questioner properly points out-- is that the OT Temple system of worship involving animal sacrifices and ritual washings has been done away with in Christ (see esp Hebrews). \n\nThis is sort of related to the first point, for the CHANGE that comes with Jesus' death & resurrection brings a new, fuller revelation of God --in Christ-- AND, tied in with that, changes in how we worship God (though we DO, at heart STILL come to God by means of atoning blood sacrifice -- the finished sacrifice of his Son! --and by a cleansing work)\n\nLet's also grant that the use of musical instruments is NOT, like idolatry, ALWAYS wrong and inconsistent with God's nature.  It was deemed perfectly appropriate in the OT system and considered an appropriate image to be included in Revelation's picture of heaven's worship.\n\n-----------------\n\nPerhaps the most important question then, is whether the use of instruments in our congregational worship is itself inconsistent with the NEW revelation of the fulfillment of the Law, and esp. of the Temple-sacrificial system, in Christ.   If the Word anywhere says this OR implies it.  I think you will agree that it does not expressly forbid this practice.  \n\nHere is, I think, the key.   And I do NOT believe Scripture anywhere teaches us that the use of musical instruments is at its court bound to the TEMPLE-ritual-sacrificial system, anymore than the use of the OT's PSALMS (which the church continued) is so part-and-parcel of that system as to be inappropriate to the New Testament revelation/fulfilment in Christ.\n\nRather, I believe that the use of musical instruments is not itself an "element" of worship (that is, one of a list of specific things we are called to do, as, for instance, praying and reading the Word are), nor something (like idols) that is  itself central to the CONTENT of our worship.  Instead it is, to some degree like singing, a WAY in which that worship is carried out.\n\nIncidentally, the two main passages that "command us to sing" in worship (Eph 5:18-19, Col 3:16) actually begin with our 'SPEAKING' the Word. Tbat is, what is key is our verbally expressing the content (to encourag
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I Love gospel music. It is the only music i care to listen to. It lifts me up.  When God saved me, He put a new song in my heart.  Good gospel singing brings joy in my life. It makes me more spiritial in the Lord.
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Sure.  As long as the music is mechanically reproduced without the main vocal and the singer is not too good.
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A lot of people have sang it (it's called "Sukiyaki").  There's a list of all of them on Wikipedia.
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One that comes to mind is the fact that people imagine Johann Sebastian Bach as having been successful in his time.  He was considered as an old-fashioned composer (he was still making Baroque music), his sons were much more "popular" than he was, at the time.
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John Legend has made a great contribution to the current music scene,  offering something fresh to the music listeners.  Lets just look at his works and not his sexual preference.  Remember we all have our skeletons.
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For me it depends, if me and all my friends are singing out loud to the music and a car pulls up i'll keep going, but if im alone i might stop. but if the windows are up, and like say it's a convertible and the roof is up i'll keep singing, or i might just keep singing anyway!
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If you want just the music without anyone singing it go to:\n\nhttp://resources.christianity.com/details.aspx?showcode=hofc&xml=hofc_20051115_1c540589-9232-4835-b50b-9d7c63a841ae&play=true\n\nThere will be a link in the middle of the page that says "listen now", click it and a new window will pop up and it will play in that new window.  If you want to hear people singing it go to:\n\nhttp://www.rhapsody.com/sacredchoirs\nthere is a link you click on, and it too should pop up in a new window. We LOVE this song!!!  If you don't like that version of it, you can do a search on rhapsody for it and it pops up like 200 plus versions of it
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CooL! Jesus Christ Superstar song. Well, anyway, is there a question here?
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Singing, maybe. I love them singing "Time of My Life". It was fun and I felt like getting up and dancing with them.
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I don't know if you are experienced with arranging music or know someone that is, but a  few years ago I heard a duet that was sung as a round with Away in a Manger mixed together with Amazing Grace sung to the tune of Away in a Manger.  It really worked well together and would be an awesome duet for church.  Good luck!
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yes, but not necessarily sung by ub40, but by elvis or michael buble :)
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Sing what ever style you want.  Sing like Whitney and Fantasia.  Just do it with virtue.  It is how you say it.  So don't swear, don't sing about a degenerative subject and dress respectably.  You don't have to be forced to sing gospel music. \n\nGod gave you gift.  Use it.  Remember the parable of the men who were given talents?  The man who increased his talents was given a great reward and the one who did nothing with his talents was punished.
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Church or school choir, karoke, street singer, etc....
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I don't know who any of those performers are but my answer is yes. A good song is any song that has meaning to you, so if the members of the group like the songs of others, the group should consider performing them.\n\nSome of the all-time great songwriters and performers have played the songs of others, including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nSo yes, a performer should always consider performing songs that s/he enjoys. That is how performers grow.
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Hymn upon hymn. There are some gorgeous songs I sing at camp, straight from the Bible. My personal favorite is an adaption of be still and know that I am God. I wish I could send you mp3s or something, but most of the hymns I learned were through word of mouth. Try buying a hymnal from your local Christian bookstore, eh?