Worship Ghettos

My dad made a good analogy today regarding the "privitization" of worship music. One group prefers Traditional Hymns while another prefers Choruses. Why do we divide over the how our music sounds? Can't we all just get along?

I say that to be funny bu there is a point to it. When we focus on style differences and decide one type is our preferred choice we forget the object of our worship. I think we should seriously conisder style choices, but the conclusion should be an eclectic blend of quality worship that both proclaims the greatness of God and our longing for him. We need to praise, honor and adore God; this type of worship can be found (textually) in hymns and gospel music (there are eceptions and also other style s I will most likely neglect to mention so please don't condemn my opinion becuase of the details).

Choruses (the music of the 90's until today [yes even earlier to starting with songs like "as the deer"]) are a great way to express the personal nature of our relationship with God. We express our yearning for the creator and the emotions associated with knowing God. These are great but more often than not we have a "worship diet" rich in this type of music. Our overdosing get to the point of hedonistic pleasure seeking, where we "worship" to get spiritually high instead of to honor God. We should have a blanced diet and remeber to praise God as well.
To illustrate this point; I was watching a worship music dvd (fre from Family Christian) it had music from Paul Baloche, Israel and the New Breed, Darlene Zschech, and other famous worship leaders. There were nine songs in all and eight of them expressed the worshipper's point of view (using mainly I, Me, My vocabulary). These are good songs (I really like Paul Baloche's "Offering") but we need a good balance. It's time to step out of our segregated churches and integrate other worship cultures. Perhaps we could stand a little "spiritual busing"?