I sent this email to our wor\u00adship lead\u00aders and I thought oth\u00aders might be inter\u00adest\u00aded in it. <\/p>\n
\nWhy do we try to incor\u00adpo\u00adrate a hymn each week into wor\u00adship?<\/p>\n
The short\u00adest answer I can give is to quote C. S. Lewis on old books: \u201cEvery age has its own out\u00adlook. It is spe\u00adcial\u00adly good at see\u00ading cer\u00adtain truths and spe\u00adcial\u00adly liable to make cer\u00adtain mis\u00adtakes. We all, there\u00adfore, need the books that will cor\u00adrect the char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic mis\u00adtakes of our own peri\u00adod. And that means the old books. All con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary writ\u00aders share to some extent the con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary outlook\u2013even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. None of us can escape this blind\u00adness, but we shall cer\u00adtain\u00adly increase it, and weak\u00aden our guard against it, if we read only mod\u00adern books. The only pal\u00adlia\u00adtive is to keep the clean sea breeze of the cen\u00adturies blow\u00ading through our minds, and this can be done only by read\u00ading old books. Not, of course, that there is any mag\u00adic about the past. Peo\u00adple were no clev\u00ader\u00ader then than they are now; they made as many mis\u00adtakes as we. But not the same mis\u00adtakes.\u201d (from his intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to Athana\u00adsius\u2019 On The Incar\u00adna\u00adtion).<\/p>\n
The same thing is true of songs. There are some great wor\u00adship songs out today and I want the major\u00adi\u00adty of our wor\u00adship to fea\u00adture them. But I don\u2019t want us to just fea\u00adture them. They have notable weak\u00adness\u00ades<\/a> (pdf link) and so I want the \u201csea breeze of the cen\u00adturies\u201d to blow through our wor\u00adship and keep us root\u00aded.<\/p>\n
Hav\u00ading said that, tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal hymn music does\u00adn\u2019t real\u00adly con\u00adnect with today\u2019s stu\u00addents. That\u2019s why I urge you to seek out or make up (yes, you are allowed to do that) con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary arrange\u00adments for the hymns that we do sing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve found a few that illus\u00adtrate what I\u2019m talk\u00ading about. Check out http:\/\/igracemusic.com\/igracemusic\/hymnbook\/hymns.html<\/a><\/p>\n
Each one has a sam\u00adple mp3, lead sheets, tab sheets, and oth\u00ader resources avail\u00adable for wor\u00adship teams.<\/p>\n
Anoth\u00ader excel\u00adlent exam\u00adple is the Dave Crow\u00adder band\u2019s record\u00ading of \u201cAll Crea\u00adtures Of Our God And King.\u201d<\/p>\n
Any\u00adway, I\u2019ve been mean\u00ading to explain myself on that for a while but I\u2019ve nev\u00ader actu\u00adal\u00adly got\u00adten around to it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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