Ear-splitting church music destroying ears

Friday, December 18th, 2015

When the noise is more painful than joyful, when the noise is an ear-splitting worship band and the decibels are raising the roof rather than the spirit, sensitive Christians are hurting and complaining.

“People are asking if this is going to make us all deaf?” says Tauranga Hearing Association’s resource co-ordinator Jo Sykes told SunLive.

“They say it’s like being at a rock concert every Sunday.”

Once upon a time, churches played the sedately pipe organ, choir and hymns, but today it’s guitars, keyboards, drums, vocalists – all electrified and amplified and potentially damaging. Continue reading

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