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Pilgrim said:
Apparently your focus, to use your phraseology, is more upon what "moves" the alleged worshipper in contrast to my focus to understand what is pleasing to God.

I said nothing of the kind. In fact, I believe it was just the opposite. I get the feeling that I'm merely a stand-in for an ongoing argument and I'm having to answer for someone else's words.

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Pilgrim said:
I am still trying to figure out where you got that term "focus" from.

Focus has to do with honoring God with the heart rather than merely the lips. One's actions might appear pleasing to God but the focus of one's heart will always be the true test (Ps 51:16-17; Matt 15:8-9).

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Pilgrim said:
generally speaking and allowing for the rare possible exception, the music is antithetical to what God has revealed about Himself and what He has set down as acceptable worship. The most basic requirement for worship is that it glorify God, i.e., that it be a true reflection of the nature and being of God.

Yes, I've heard this argument before. What always fails to happen, though, is an adequate explanation of why the arrangements of hymns of old are more in line with the character of God and the more modern music with syncopated beats are worldly and of the devil. Inherent in every one is an assumption that how one views the music himself is in line with how God views it. As much as you might dislike the accusation, even your view is tainted with subjective opinion.

"Nothing can be more insulting to God than to presume to examine His Word, professing a desire to learn His mind, when we have already settled to our own satisfaction what it will say."
~A.W. Pink