Are British Evangelicals Singing Psalms?
I had a conversation with a twitter buddy a while back. Without going into the details my tweet was along the lines of 'Why don't you sing Psalms you heathen bunch?' His response was 'we do, you impatient ignoramus'. After all this is Twitter! Okay, maybe it wasn't quite like that and yes I know it's not Twitter anymore. His point was that sometimes we sing lines from Psalms, sometimes we sing sections and sometimes we sing other parts of Scripture. Infact we sing lots of the Psalms, so we're covered when it comes to sing Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. It was late so we both called it quits and signed off for the night. However, is what he said true? Are we fulfilling that command to sing Psalms in taking sections of Psalms and building songs around them? Is that what is actually happening? I decided to dig a bit deeper. The first port of call was the CCLI website and their top ten. Of course many churches don’t use a projector so there will be man...