What Are These Churches Thinking?

Played for a going-away reception yesterday for two church musicians from one of Atlanta's largest churches---over 50 years' experience between them. Maybe 400 people, devastated, were at the reception, mourning the church's change in direction--mourning, in effect, a pastoral coup d'etat. But the 400 people present prove that strong music programs bring people to the church and get them committed and involved.

Seems to me that churches should be careful in destroying programs that have been built over many decades. First, music. Then, who knows?

Makes you wonder exactly what book the church leaders are using as a guide . . .