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]]> http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/what-makes-a-good-worship-song/#comment-23 loudmouthprotestant Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:47:28 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-23 I believe a good worship song is one that I can find and lose myself in. Many times when I hear a certain song during worship on Sunday morning, it transports me to an entirely different place in the service. It's a song that I will not only be able to find where I am and supposed to be--take Tim Hughes' "Here I am to Worship"--but it will remind me of God's greatness. Genre doesn't matter to me as long as I can find where I belong in the music and as long as I can find God in the moment of worship. And I'd like to believe that is all any congregant needs in worship service. They just need to be able to commune with God through the music and also find a piece of themselves in it. It's the singing of a verse like "I'll never know, how much it cost, to see my sins, upon that cross," that really bring out true worship for those who are looking for true worship. So maybe, the long story short of this is that God makes a good worship song. As long as the music is always exalting him, praising him and reminding us of his character, we can never go wrong. I believe a good worship song is one that I can find and lose myself in. Many times when I hear a certain song during worship on Sunday morning, it transports me to an entirely different place in the service. It’s a song that I will not only be able to find where I am and supposed to be–take Tim Hughes’ “Here I am to Worship”–but it will remind me of God’s greatness. Genre doesn’t matter to me as long as I can find where I belong in the music and as long as I can find God in the moment of worship. And I’d like to believe that is all any congregant needs in worship service. They just need to be able to commune with God through the music and also find a piece of themselves in it. It’s the singing of a verse like “I’ll never know, how much it cost, to see my sins, upon that cross,” that really bring out true worship for those who are looking for true worship. So maybe, the long story short of this is that God makes a good worship song. As long as the music is always exalting him, praising him and reminding us of his character, we can never go wrong.

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