A theological reflection on the place of music in worship and guidelines for evaluating and selecting music for congregational worship.

2016年3月30日 · Music serves some distinct purposes in our lives and especially within our Christian tradition. Let’s examine a few. 1. Music teaches us the gospel. Hymns and spiritual songs take our faith and compact it. In fact, the melody and …

2020年11月11日 · Music in the church exists to facilitate the corporate worship of God by his people and to build them up in the truth into greater degrees of likeness to the Lord Jesus. Therefore, a church’s worship music ministry—if it is to be consistent with the Scriptures—should exist to point people past itself, past the musicians, and to the Lord ...

New Testament music in worship included psalmody, hymns composed in the church, and spiritual songs-alleluias and songs of jubilation or ecstatic nature. Very little can be said with certainty about the music of the first three centuries of …

Music in worship is not just a background element—it plays a central role in shaping the emotional and spiritual experience of those participating. It uniquely evokes deep feelings and fosters a sense of connection with God and the people around us.

2017年9月29日 · When the church gathers for worship we engage with God through singing, clapping, bowing, lifting hands, and other biblical actions, often led by music. Other worship actions are accompanied with music in the background.

2019年3月18日 · Music in a service of worship gives the opportunity for a deeper, broader and fuller way to be alive and fully human. Music tells us when the service is about to start, when the sermon is about to end, when we should be scrambling to finish up our communion wafer, and what type of mood we should be feeling.