Some first-time visitors taught me something about the church I had kind of taken for granted. These visitors said to me, “We have never, ever heard singing like that. We didn’t know any of the songs, but everyone sang them with such feeling.”
Later when another guest told me almost the same thing, I decided to do what I had suggested to him on the way to church.
“The hymns will probably be all new to you,” I said, “so just listen. See what you pick up from the words and the thoughts being expressed.”
Well, I tried that. Even closed my eyes and listened. And I, too, was moved. Here were truths being sung by young and old all expressing their faith through music.
Listen, if hymn singing has lost its edge, just listen for a change, all right? Very quickly you will find it hard to keep quiet.
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