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November 18 2008 at 3:33 pm

“Hymns, Glorious Hymns!”

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A member of our church sent me an e-mail titled “Hymns, Glorious Hymns!” in which she shared this encouragement about our plan as a church to memorize great hymns of the faith:

Josh:

Please don’t ever apologize for having our church learn great hymns.  I am so thrilled that we are doing this.  I must say that I never thought that this would happen at CLC—and a hymn sing too!  Heavenly!

I grew up in a denominational church and was saved at a young age.  However, our pastor did not believe that the Bible was the word of God, and therefore the content of his sermons lacked biblical doctrine.  Thankfully, we still sang three or four hymns every Sunday, and these were my sermons.  Oh, the richness that was imparted to my soul through those.  As a teenager hymns at church were especially precious to me.  The Lord continually spoke to me and provided a wonderful feast for me. 

So thank you for allowing Bob and Ken to lead us in this glorious endeavor.  My only suggestion is that we need to add about 100 more! (Ten just isn’t enough.)

With gratitude,

Karen

 





I totally agree!

We are a young vibrant church with lots of youth coming in every Sunday, and the temptation is to use only the latest cutting edge rock songs, but my heart is moved more when I sit down and read my “Scottish Hymnary and Psalter.” Most of our people have either never heard these great songs or they think that by singing hymns we will kill worship and drag the church back into a dead religion.

So, as worship leader this weekend, I decided to do a “contemporary” arrangement of “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.”

The music team were all saying, “Where did you get this song? It’s awesome.”

I told them it was written in the 18th century and there’s plenty more where that came from.
We don’t have to sing them “high church” style.
Listen to The David Crowder Band when they arrange hymns.
We can’t lose these wonderful songs. They are dripping with good theology and often contain an overview of the whole gospel in one hit.

By Paul Mitchell on 11/19/2008
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