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quercuscontramalum (http://quercuscontramalum.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "More Non-News from The CORE, But Mostly about St. ...":
As I recall, Coinya was greased into the WELS congregations with the promise, "But they're only singing songs right out of the hymnal."
"I pulled my coat tight against the calling crowd" doesn't match any hymn. Google doesn't know anything about it either, other than Ichabod quotes it and Coinya is so ashamed of it, they won't post their lyrics.
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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Greasing the Praise Band into the Chancel. The Abo...":
This type of musical display is nothing but a damnable cultural expression of narcissism. The worship of the Lord in the beauty of His holiness is replaced by this foul expression of First Commandment disobedience. The pop culture has invaded the Almighty's space!
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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K. F. Peters has left a new comment on your post "Greasing the Praise Band into the Chancel. The Abo...":
Shouldn't the band be facing in the other direction, i.e. towards the altar? That is the direction the pastor faces during the sacrificial part of the service when he speaks to God on our behalf and the sacrificial includes hymns.
To blur the distinction between sacrificial and sacramental is to become directionless.