Why Don't We Sing in Chapel..?

    Honestly, why don't we students sing during chapel??  Are we embarrassed by what others think? Can we not connect with the songs?  What is it? 

                  The truth is we are scared.  Every single one of us is embarrassed by what the people next to us might think.  We want to keep a good reputation so we just decide to remain quiet so we don't seem "too Christian."  It shouldn't matter though, popularity and reputation is temporary.  And if we do sing out loud, there's people that will laugh at you behind your back. It's wrong how judgmental a lot of our school is.  But with how small our school is, we can change the outlook of it easily.

                   A second reason is because we don't like or cannot connect with the songs.  A lot of us think the music is too conservative with its style.  Most of us would relate better to louder music and a more teenage based sound.  For generations it's always been the same way--the younger more teenaged based people have enjoyed a more upbeat and connecting song than the older adults.




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Teenagers are obviously going to connect better with the first one compared to the second.  Also, both types of music end up having the same message so nothing ends up being "ungodly."  In my opinion, music that has a faster beat, louder noise, and the artist talks faster doesn't mean it's ungodly or non-Christian.  You're going to have to connect with different people in different ways for them to understand spiritual matters and such.

     God wants us to worship him most definitely, but He doesn't care about the delivery of worship.  As long as we're focusing and worshiping God, nothing else should matter.  Worshiping has everything to do with the heart, not the sound that we hear.