JBaldwin
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Are hymnals on the way out? PLEASE...this is NOT another discussion about exclusive psalmody or instruments in worship.
Recently, I was asked whether I thought our church should purchase hymnals. Briefly, we've been without them because of the cost. This got me thinking about the use of hymnals at all. Are they on the way out?
The trend seems to be the newer settings of hymns (eg. ruf hymnal), the contemporary settings of Psalms and the transition, especially in a lot of PCA churches, to using overhead projectors and printing words in the bulletins, I wonder if the hymnal is going to be a thing of the past in the next ten years.
Any thoughts?
Recently, I was asked whether I thought our church should purchase hymnals. Briefly, we've been without them because of the cost. This got me thinking about the use of hymnals at all. Are they on the way out?
The trend seems to be the newer settings of hymns (eg. ruf hymnal), the contemporary settings of Psalms and the transition, especially in a lot of PCA churches, to using overhead projectors and printing words in the bulletins, I wonder if the hymnal is going to be a thing of the past in the next ten years.
Any thoughts?