Ask Me Anything: Should We Sing The Psalms?

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What is our stance on singing psalms at church? Scripture is very clear about who
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God is and how He is to be worshipped. We have a hymnal in the
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Bible, like this is a worship book, songs to God that are not just songs to God that give us ushy -gushy feelings.
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There's nothing wrong with experience and feeling and emotion and worship. We want to avoid that.
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That's also a cliff. It just needs to be dry and no emotion. Sometimes you're reading the psalms and your eyes fill with tears, and your heart is full because of the hope you have in God.
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You need the psalms that actually speak in reality about our human experience in this fallen world and how horrible life can be at times.
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The psalms will swing from, like, God, you're this, and where are you? I feel this, and then it'll swing right back to God's faithfulness, where God is answering your despair.
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There's a theological training and instruction in the worship that the psalms will give you.
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However, I don't agree that there is no space within the
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Christian assembly of worship for Christians to create hymns.
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I think those hymns should sound a heck of a lot like the psalms. Like, I think we can make songs as Christians, but they have to be biblical.