I just want the answer

I would like to understand the whole topic of sacred music/worship arts in the church today. I have two things pulling at me. I've had 4 home churches in my life, and a bevy of other churches when we lived in other states. I was exposed to the choir, the robes, the recitation, Lutherans, episcopalians, Pentecostals, baptists. I can literally say I've seen a lot of denominations. When we tried to find churches, mom just prayed and God found the one for us during that time.
Here in az, I went to living streams, desert steams, desert life, and Scottsdale bible. They overlapped with each other at numerous times but we have been going to SBC since 2009.
What I'm trying to say (oh good, a point) is all my home churches had worship that was in a praise band format. Drums, vocals, stage, percussion, the works. Some of it was more instrumental than others (desert streams had like two amps and some tambourines, desert life had excruciatingly loud Black praise band)
I grew up with this. It helped form me and helped me grow in Christ.
However the older I get the more I find myself LOVING the traditional forms of worship. Organ, hymns, choir, songs with more than three chords.
This isn't something new, I've always liked tradition worship my whole life I've just started studying both the more I learn about how music works.

Instead of blathering on and on I'm going to throw the thing that makes me conflicted. And I know how important it is for Christians to be in unity. Just like the bible never says "abortion is wrong" in those exact words, it expresses Gods love for creating life and his hand in giving and taking life. The bible isn't saying "you must only worship in the singing of psalms." It speaks about giving God your best in worship. Like Abel giving God his first fruits-- the best he had to offer. I believe worship should be that.

I have so much more to say. Can you tell I trying to hold back? I thought I could type that in just two sentences above. I'm wrong I just keep typing because I have examples and points and...just too much to say.

The conclusions I'm reaching are that praise band music is missing the mark. I think that when the world entered the church, it never left. Our hymnals were removed a couple of years back. Nobody noticed. Could you imagine moving the drums off the stage without causing a ruckus? No. This infiltration is obvious in our culture of young people. Our young Christians. Another wave of lukewarm ambassadors of Christ. I'm not saying that praise band is the culprit, but I think it enables just enough to encourage carnality in worship and in life.


Okay that was a lot. I thought it would only be a sentence. WRONG! Well now that I've said that I'm going to say that I really don't like my conclusions. Although they make sense I can see how legalism may be affecting it.
All I know is that I want answers and I want truth. I don't wanna go on gut feelings and personal preferences. I actually want to research and study and try to gather more insight on the whole worship topic in general. I think both sides have viable concerns that deserve attention. I will be exploring this thoroughly this summer. Stay tuned!!