Prophetic Song / Spontaneous Worship, etc.

[DeanZF]

Is the song you mean by Mark Altrogge? Cuz if it is--that's not the chorus.

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No, not by Mark, so far as I know. This might actually be the refrain from a song for our vacation bible school that's coming up! Not sure, but so it seems.

So then, can spontaneous or prophetic song be a chorus from an already known song?

Yes, IMO. Sometimes a known song can spark a new melody or one line from such a song can be really the message that Father's wanting to get across.

Also--what exactly is a "new song"? I'm having such a hard time differentiating between all these terms, it's just not funny!

Part of the reason that you're having trouble differentiating is that EVERYone has trouble differentiating. They all (we all?) want to have our own private definitions or interpretations. It's a hard area. The Hebrew and Greek are not always clear. And sometimes when the original languages are clear, that clarity offends someone's dogma and thus has to be modified to mollify! Heck, think about the continuing flap about being filled with the Holy Spirit, salvation, or even something as simple as SIN!



New song is sometimes used to say the same thing that we've been talking about, prophetic song, spontaneous worship, singing in the spirit. Some folks take it literally, in a sense, expecting new songs all the time. Makes congregational worship kind of tricky.



Others are kind of in the middle. For me personally, I'd probably mostly agree with the spontaneous worship definition, and that out of a practiced expression of that, that new additions to the congregation's repertoire might be birthed. When a worshiper, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit begins to sing a discernable, repeatable song that speaks to the immediate situation of the congregation, to the long-range vision of the congregation, or prophetically to the needs of the congregation, hopefully someone is writing down (scribe) or recording (smart and anointed sound techie!!) those times. Another suggestion to our congregation of 20+ years ago was that when prophetic words come to the congregation that are guiding words that need to "stay before the congregation," one way to do that is to set the words to music and sing them! I would classify that as both A new song and (just) "new song".
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Another question. . . .is this forum 100% private?

To the best of my knowledge it is not, totally; There are "members only" forums that are readable only by members/subscribers/Friends. Sign out and try to get into those forums. You can't. you won't even see them. If you can't, the web spiders can't. More in a separate email.

I have to tell you, I LOVE this forum! It's been more of a blessing to me than many such technological helps. . .

I'm so glad. That's exactly the desired effect. Not to promote our own ideology or our own definitions, but to try and explore the incredible variety of insights available to the Body when that Body cooperates and shares openly and honestly.