why do some worshipers claim the music of the ser vice is more of a “message” for them than the preaching? Music enables people to “experience” Christ and even theology. How? The right brain turns the entire body into a lyre on which the winds of the Spirit can play the chords of truth. Music turns our being into a theremin that can give off “good vibrations,” vibes that are true and beautiful as well as good. Without engaging our right brains, we are left flat, able to analyze, to categorize, and to theorize but without sound or significance. We are left only with signifiers. Without right
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