In speaking with John Gage about creating and writing this Hymns in Worship book he told us, “I still believe that a unified, multi-generational church culture is a preferred ideology, but I also see some 250 people every Sunday morning who respond to the hymns of yesterday… who are moved, challenged, inspired, motivated and wo become participants rather than spectators because they can worship in a language that is both understandable and meaningful.

He continued to discuss a fellow Theologian, John Piper, who says it this way, “There is very little in the New Testament about the forms and style and content of corporate worship.  Following Old Testament forms too closely contradicts the obsolescence of the wineskins.  God must mean to leave the matter of form and style and content to the judgement of our spiritual wisdom – not to our whim or our tradition, but to prayerful, thoughtful, culturally alert, self-critical, Bible-saturated, God-centered, Christ-exalting, reflection driven by a passion to be filled with all the fullness of God.  I assume this will be an ongoing process, not a onetime effort.”

PAPERBACK: 72 Pages

PUBLISHED DATE: November 1, 2017