I talk with my congregation quite a bit about the value of the hymnal and the fact that contemporary music within the church has almost entirely walked away from the hymnal in our interest of creating new songs. We have created new songs but I’m not sure we have created hymns—those melodies that bear serious theological meaning, hymns which over a long period of time will carry the solace, the comfort, as well as the instruction that the worshiper needs. This past week the congregation was singing, Jesus Is All the World to Me—“my life, my joy, my all.” And I said to a young man here who was about 25 years old, “Do you know that hymn?” He said, “No, I’ve never heard it before in my life.” Now for me that’s a tragedy because I think we are missing out—we are about to lose something that I think is the very foundation, not only of our worship but the foundation of our understanding of who we are as the people of God. another quote from a preacher in Washington DC
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:05:19 +0000
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