Sunday morning the congregation responded with many hands raised when asked it they had seen the article in that monring's paper lamenting the disappearance of church music as something called contemporary intrudes and replaces familiar hymns. Persons who have read this blog know that I have commented several times that I would like for us to sing more traditional hymns. I took a quick glance through the Methodist hymnal and found over one hundred songs familiar to me that we haven't sung in 20 years.
When we had Sunday night services, the song service had more familiar and enjoyed hymns than was true of the morning worship. What has happened to the enthusiastic decision to have a community singing each month? This would help to keep alive much of the great music and great messages of our hymns. What a shame if we lose the messsages in song of Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby and Issac Watts, among many others.
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