Do you love hymns!

today in church I was standing at the back of the sanctuary, and during worship I was thinking about how much I miss hymns. To be completely honest I never really remember singing hymns in church. We have always sung contemporary music for the most part since I've been a believer. But that all changed for me while I was down at the together for the gospel conference in Kentucky. We Sung hymns before every speaker would get up and after every speaker was done. It could've been the fact that over 5000 men were singing hymns with me. But there was something about worshiping to those hymns. It just felt more majestic more glorious and more honoring to God . The lyrics in the song just seemed to focus me directly upon God and upon Christ and the work he did on the cross. They were so deep in theology I felt convicted just singing the songs.

The title to the first video I have attached to this article is “do you hate old hands because you're unregenerate”. Right off the bat people will jump to battle stations and say that's ridiculous, contemporary music is just fine for Christians to worship to. In the general context of the argument I don't have an issue with contemporary christian music. But I also agree with the point that they make on this clip when they say, “is it possible that you do not like hymns because you are unregenerate (not saved)”? I believe that I was that guy, I couldn't stand to listen to hymns. hymns were just boring and dry and long and drawn out. But at the time I thought that way about hymns I obviously was unregenerate when I look back. Of course, I prayed the prayer , you know accept Jesus into my heart. The more I studied God's word the more I realized that those are all just outward signs. Inwardly I wasn't bored again.



So not to leave you hanging the second clip that I have in this post is really awesome. It is a clip of Wintley Phipps talking about the slave scale on the piano, and how almost all the Negro spiritual songs come from the slave scale or the Black Keys. And it's just a cool little clip where he explains how the melody for Amazing Grace possibly could've came about.