Does your church still use hymnals?

[Matthias]

From my X / Twitter “Following” feed this morning -

“The singing before the preaching of the Word should prepare God’s people to listen to Him and express their submission and delight in His will.”

https://x.com/expositcllctv/status/1939966533003857982?s=61

I suggest combining this observation with the general point expressed in post #40.

 

[Jay Ross]

Worship today is like chanting 7/24 words 24/7 times. It is called 24/7 worship.

Many of the songs repeat "we want to" and God is asking what it is that you are wanting to do, and their response is, "we want to worship/love/praise you" and God's one word response is simply "when."

The non-threatening language is also prevalent in the prayers that people present "relevantly" to God. It goes something like this, "Lord we want to pray to your today for . . . ?

Oh well, perhaps it is stepping stone to a deeper relationship with God.

The best way of worshipping God is to sing songs that leave the words "want to," out of the lyrics all together.

Our worship and prayers are like this because we are the puppeteer and that you are our puppet whose strings we can pull to fill our needs and desires and remove our fears.