I just finished reading an interview with David Crowder in Worship Leader Magazine. Check this out.

"WORSHIP LEADER: The next generation of worshipers are more open than ever before to new styles, sounds and song contructions. How do you think that will affect worship music in the future?

DAVID CROWDER: Well, I think our exposure to music is at an all time high. Think back only a hundred years ago. Recorded music didn't exist. Music was limited to a particular moment in time. A composer assembled a composition, a conductor interpreted it, musicians performed it, an audience listened or participated in it and then it was over. With the advent of recording you now take music out of the time dimension and put it in the space dimension to be manipulated and held in the hand and placed in the car, or mp3 player, to be experienced again and again. Granted the degrees of degradation between the composer and the realized work are lessened, and this allows for the addition of many more subtleties to exist for the discovery of multiple listens, but it is the power of the listener that is greater than ever. The listener is the conductor. Toting an iPod around, filling any and every space entered with their own soundtrack of experience. It is a different world, musically speaking. If I don't have my iPod with me I hardly know what I'm feeling. You know? A feeling will hit, and I have to start scrolling through to find the song that helps me best understand what exactly this emotion is that I find swelling in my chest. That's weird! Diversity and expectation is braoder and more vast and demanding than ever. It really is crazy to think how different the landscape is in a mere on hundred years. And with the arrival of the commercial viability of 'corporate worship music' there are great issues at stake, I believe."

Whaddya' think? You relate?