5 Reasons Why We Should Sing Psalms and Hymns in Church
BY JONATHAN LANDRY CRUSE | Does your congregation sing psalms and hymns during the church service? Here are five reasons why it’s good to do.
We want to ensure that our songs are God-centered, Christ-focused, Bible-based, accessible to the congregation, with texts appropriately wedded to singable tunes, and so much more. What should we sing in church?
This important question deserves a much longer answer than the one I will briefly present in this article. Here I want to take up one particular aspect of this question, which will undoubtedly be asked at some point in the life of a Reformed church: should we only be singing the psalms? Certain church orders grant no leeway, dictating the use of the Psalter exclusively. Other church orders give preference to the psalms, while others remain silent on the issue. In this brief article, I want to offer up a balanced approach and give five reasons why we should be singing both psalms and hymns…