Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
The author is Ralph Carmichael and I put in a nicer version that is singing not organ...nice song...
It is beautiful!
I had a wonderful piano solo version that I loved to play...it was very beautiful...back when music was melodic and words were understandable and had meaning...those were the days, my friend...
we thought they’d never end …
We'd sing and dance forever and a day...
We'd live the life we choose...
We'd fight and never lose....
Those were the days...
Oh yes those were the days...
They were!
I visited a large church today (was much smaller 10 years ago) and the reason I did t continue even then was it doesn’t have a choir, only musicians (local) that sing current songs with lyrics on the screen for the congregation to follow along..
I’m grew up Southern Baptist and at least we had hymnals to use to follow along.
But I guess that isn’t the current way to have song praise :-/
I will say that the energy in that congregation was amazing, and it was very humbling to be among so many people worshiping Christ, even if I didn’t like the music … the sermon was fantastic.