![]() And they were held downtown in a theater. Truett began conducting those services sixty-some-odd years ago. For the first time ever, we are having our pre-Easter services here in the church auditorium. I would like to invite all of us, if we can, to take just a moment and meet with us, high noon each day this week. I do admit we’re on radio, and you are listening to the services of the First Baptist Church in Dallas. I don’t have to worry about it out there. We are not on television today, so I just feel so free! You’re wonderful, and I need to turn around and look at you. Well, that was beside the point, wasn’t it? But again, just once in a while, do it for me and the rest of the time we will sing foot-stomping music. Or so many of the hymns and the anthems they sing. ![]() When they sing the Lord’s Prayer or that song of the solo, “Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world”. Then the rest of the time you can sing that claptrap.” I just relive that whole glorious intervention of God in the days of Israel’s apostasy.Īnd yet, while I am seated there just reliving all of that there are ten thousand people that say, “That is the most boring thing I ever listen to.” So I have told Gary, I say “Gary, for my sake and the Lord’s sake, once in a while, sing a fine song. And I just sit there and I am just so blessed. Felix Mendelssohn describing Elijah and the day of the rain when he prayed and the floods came, and I can just see Elijah running before the chariot of Ahab. But it is not easy for me to remember that. ![]() So I sit there and I try to remember that. And he said, “I love everything about your service except the music.” He said, “The music in your church is too high.” He said, “What you need to sing in the church for your television program is music that is down here somewhere, foot-stomping music, you know, that kind of music.” Well, I have been told by several people here in the church: “Pastor, you have to remember that not everybody has taste in music such as you have. It was addressed to the parsonage, so I received it and read it personally.Īnd he said to me, “I listen to your service on television.” He lives in another state. I received a letter this week from a pastor. And why they are not moved by things that move you. One of the most difficult things in the world is to try to understand why people do not like what you like.
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