...it doesn't matter now, come on get happy. 'cause nothing lasts forever...but I will always love you." -Neko Case, Don't Forget Me
While the introduction to this post has nothing whatsoever to do with the further content of the post, it acts as a shout out to the marvelous Neko Case and the song Don't Forget Me off her year-topping album, Middle Cyclone.
Anyways, I've been recently thinking about the importance of worship through corporate song. Rather than go into a long-winded monologue on the subject, I thought I would provide y'all with three quotes to chew on:
"My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God...Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise!" -Psalm 84:2,4 ESV
"The duty of singing praises to God seems to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections. No other reason can be assigned, why we should express ourselves to God in verse, rather than in prose, and do it with music, but only that such is our nature and frame, that these things have a tendency to move our affections." -Jonathan Edwards
"Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose. Emotionalism can also assume that heightened feelings are the infallible sign that God is present. They're not. The emotions that singing is meant to evoke are responses to the truths we're singing about God--his glory, his greatness, and his goodness. Vibrant singing enables us to connect truth about God seamlessly, with passion, so that we can combine doctrine and devotion, edification and expression, mind and heart." -Bob Kauflin
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