Do We Sing All Five Worship-Hymn Preferences?
"I just love the old gospel hymns," exclaimed Helen, the oldest choir member, after the choir finished practicing "His Eye Is on the Sparrow."
Carol, a choir member in her mid-sixties, asked, "But aren't some of those gospel hymns theologically unsound? I prefer the really old hymns like 'Holy, Holy, Holy.'"
Bill interrupted with, "I'll take the contemporary praise songs over those oldies every Sunday. I first heard 'Father I Adore You' at an Emmaus Walk Weekend back in the 1970s, and that really spoke to me."
"But those are actually old contemporary songs," said Amy, a thirty-year-old choir member. "The praise songs written in the 1980s, like 'Change My Heart O God,' are much more meaningful..."
The youngest choir member, Jacob, interrupted Amy with, "That type of praise song is too old to call contemporary! Songs written during the last fifteen years, like 'You Are My All in All,' are what's happening now."
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