Propriety

“Rejection of a particular kind of music for worship is not the same thing as a rejection of that kind of music. I like jazz, I like rock and roll, some of it, I like classical, I like the blues, and I love the psalms. Now give this hash of musical interests and appreciations, you would think that I would be arguing that we should employ all of it in the worship of God. The assumption is that anything we like ought to be hauled into the worship service. Not a bit of it, and the key word is propriety. I like beer too, but it would be sacrilegious to have a bottle of beer with me in the pulpit, though it would not be sacrilegious to have a glass of water there” (Mother Kirk, pp. 129-130).