Comments on: Why Don’t You Sing More Hymns?

By: Tracie

Tracie — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:49:00 +0000

You have summed up quite nicely the reason that so many of us beg to sing the hymns of our youth. While some of the new songs are quite meaningful, many are very hard for a congregation to sing, since they were written by a recording artist for professionals – not to mention that we are not given any music to read, in order to try to learn them. I’ve never understood the hostility towards the old favorites – why must it be all or nothing? To paraphrase my old Brownie book, Learn new songs, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:56:04 +0000

Greetings from Wordwise Hymns. Thanks for the balanced article. As one who has studied this subject for decades, I’ve heard all the arguments, pro and con. Sometimes “tradition” is looked upon as a totally negative thing. But the word simply refers to that which is passed on, handed on from one person to another, or one generation to another. To be sure, it can be abused. But that sense of continuity and connection with our heritage is important. Those churches that have abandoned the hymn book, in order to be “contemporary” have robbed their congregations of this important link.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:02:35 +0000

You have stated all the reasons why I so miss singing the old songs, call them hymns or whatever, they were the “old songs” that we grew up on and loved…and still love today. I’ve have nothing against the new scripture songs, but I do wonder what on earth chruch leadership has against the old songs that were contained in hymnals? Worship for me was so much more while singing “the old rugged cross” instead of singing the same scripture song three, four oh lets do it again five times. Christmas is positively dismal when carols are delagated to a couple of quickly sung songs, just to appease us old timers. I feel like a second class citizen in my own church and it hurts.

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theworshipcommunity — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:30:51 +0000

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