To Sing or Not To Sing

I have problems with boundaries. I tend to push into other people's if I think something is unjust. So when my therapist told me that her church decided not to have a choir anymore because they only want a praise team* I immediately knew what I would have done. I would have gotten the choir together and had them sit in one area of the church together and we would have belted out every tune! Not that I like choirs - the better they are the less I can understand what they are singing. Now at the other end of the spectrum is Ian's friend who "goes to church every Sunday". Ian was surprised to find out that he goes to church - but then the truth came out - he is paid to sing in the choir. He shows up for practice once a week and on Sunday to sing. He is not a church member and basically shows for the paycheque. Somewhere between not wanting the services of a choir and paying people to fill the holes in the choir suits me just fine!

*non-churched dictionary - this took me forever to figure out, and I still don't get it. Churches tend to have a choir - usually in robes that sing the older hymns and are can be informal to very formal. A Praise Team is a small group of people who stand at the front and are usually good singers but less formal in what they sing. More uplifting, emotional stuff with instruments like drums and guitars (gasp!). I have yet to figure out why a praise team is necessary and maybe I'm ahead of my time but I would like to see praise teams abolished. Have instruments and stuff to play the music but for goodness sakes the whole congregation should be the praise team!