Abstract/Overview Worship music is a genre which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with christian faith. Assimilated elements of contemporary music into AIC traditional worship music (TWM) expressions are becoming more popular with modern Christian worship practice. Worshippers show either pleasure and/or discontentment towards these elements of contemporary music such as the use of loud music and popular dance music idioms in what would otherwise be solemn liturgies, a reaction that...