4 -Thomasville Times - Tuesday, September 14,2010
FOCUS
Participation
brings greatest
church experience
MUSICALLY SPEAKING
JOSEF WALKER
Guest Columnist
Congregational hymn
slngmg provides a
wonderful opportunity
for participation In the
worship experience.
The Protestant Worship
Service is comprised of
two major components
“Praise” and “Prayer.”
These two different,
yet related, parts of the
worship service are
led by the ministry of
word and sacrament
and the ministry of
music and the arts.
In the more liturgi
cal services of worship, ■
a congregation can
participate in responsive
readings, the “Gloria,”
“Sanctus,” and ’’Kyrie,”
as well as hymns. In the
less liturgical service,
just about the only op
portunity that you have
to participate is in hymn
singing, except for that
part when you begrudg
ingly reach your wallet
for the offertory Have
we lost sight of the fact
that we are aU in church
for corporate worship
and that we all contrib
ute to the worship expe
rience? Have some of us
become just spectators?
Is the congregational
singing at your church
sometimes less than
inspiring; perhaps even
lack luster? There was a
time when I thought that
parishioners just might
not know the hymns we
were singing. A dear
friend and former choir
member shared with a
possible reason for this
less-than-enthusiastic
singing. Virtually every
denomination has its
own prescribed hymnal.
Unfortunately, some peo
ple bring another hym
nal with them. Theirs
is called “Hymns of the
Lukewarm Church”.
Herewith is a listing
of some of these hymns:
1. “A comfy Mattress
Is Our God” 2. “Joyful,
Joyful, We Kinda Like
Thee” 3. “Above Average
is thy Faithfulness” 4.
“Lord, Keep Us Loosely
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5. “AU HaU the Influence
of Jesus’ Name” 6. “My
Hope is BuUt on Noth
ing Much” 7. “Amazing
Grace, How Interesting
the Sound” 8. “My Faith
Looks Around for Thee”
9. “Be Thou My Hobby”
10. “O God, Our Enabler
in Ages Past” 11. “Blest
Be the Tie That Doesn’t
Cramp My Style” 12 “O
for a Couple of Tongues
to Sing” 13. “He’s Quite a
Bit to Me” 14. “Oh, How
I Like Jesus” 15. “I Lay
My Inappropriate Behav
ior on Jesus” 16. “PUlow
of Ages, Fluffed for Me”
17. “I Surrender Some”
18. “Praise God from
Whom AU Affirmations
Flow” 19. “I’m Fairly
Certain That My Re
deemer Lives” 20. “Self-
Esteem to the World! The
Lord is Come” 21. “Sit
Up, Sit Up, for Jesus”
22. “Special, Special,
Special” 23. “Spirit of
the Living God, FaU
Somewhere Near Me”
24. “Stick Nearby, It’s
Getting Dark Outside”
25. “Take My Life and
Let Me Be: 26. “There
is Scattered Cloudiness
in My Soul Today” 27.
“There ShaU be Sprin
kles of Blessings” 28.
“What an Acquaintance
We Have in Jesus” 29.
“When Peace, Like a
Trickle ...” 30. “When the
Saints Go Sneaking In”
31. “Where He Leads Me,
I WUl Consider FoUow-
ing” 32. “God of Taste,
and God of Stories”
Its little wonder that
some people leave
church thinking they
haven’t gotten much out
of the service. Everyone
knows the more you
invest in anything the
more you can expect to
get out of it. There are
so few opportunities for
the congregation to do
anything more than just
to be a spectator. 'When
you have the opportunity
to participate through
hymn singing (using the
appropriate hymnal) and
you attempt to sing the
hymns of faith, you’U be
surprised how affirming
the experience can be
for you. It can truly put
a song in your heart.
Guest Columnist Josef
Walker is Choirmaster/
Organist of Heidelberg
United Church of Christ
and serves on the Execu
tive Board of the Ameri
can Guild of Organists.
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