Desiring God Part 3

After the panel discussion we went home for the night and rested really well. We got up early Saturday Morning for Bob Kauflin who was incredible. He spoke about words in song but focused on the fact that our words in song should be Gospel centered. This guy had a ton of wisdom. Check him out at www.worshipmatters.com...
Bob Kauflin, www.worshipmatters.com
What Happens When We Sing
- Over 400 references to singing
- Over 50 direct commands to sing
- When I become more moved by the singing than what was sung; I have sinned wickedly. I would have rathered never to have sung. –Augustine
- Don’t wait until moves you. God has already done something to move us.
I. 3 Ways Singing Helps us Engage the Word
1. Singing helps us remember the words.
- Use effective melodies in worship…the melodies that people want to learn.
- You can leave music behind but not the words.
- We should sing what God wants us to remember.
- Show me a churches song selection and I’ll show you their theology. –Gordon Fee
- If the songs sung were the only teaching your church receives, how educated would your church be?
2. Singing Helps us Engage Emotionally with Words.
- We need to be solid in what God has made clear in his word and discerning in what He has not.
- Singing allows us to stretch out portions of the song we may need more time to think on.
- When people begin to complain about repeating the chorus of a song too many times tell them to read Psalm 136…to get the point across REPEAT IT!!
- There is a difference between emotional moving and spiritual illumination. Emotions fizzle. Illumination sticks.
3. Singing Helps us Demonstrate Unity.
- Christ did not die for a soloist but for the universal choir…Everyone matters
- Sing songs that unite rather than divide.
- It must be clear that it is the sung Gospel and not the sung music that unites.
- The Bible makes clear what we should sing, “Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain.”
- It is not the style…It’s the Lamb
- Going to 2 services because of difference in musical styles is wrong. Be united over the Gospel and not the style. If music style can separate us than we are not a Gospel united Church.