I often hear the argument that musical style is neutral when it comes to appropriateness for worship, and that the reason we in the Gottesdienst Crowd reject “contemporary worship” is simply because we just happen to like the organ and classical music. In other words, if the words pass theological muster, any musical style may be used for the Divine Service, as Scripture doesn’t specify such things, thus making it a matter of adiaphora.

If precious but grumpy sheep have already decided to complain about being fed good food, we pastors might as well “sin boldly” as Luther once said, and feed them very well.