Worship teams vs Choirs

[Uth_Guy]

What style of worship music does your church use on a regular basis: hymns, praise music, or a combo of both? How does your choice of music styling aide, or effect, the worship?

On previous posts, we have noted that music can be a touchy subject, but we all use music in our services to create or inspire deeper worship.

Being in a cross-cultural setting, we use a combination of hymns and praise music. Our English service is primarily youth so we have incorporated more theologically-sound praise music. We do have hymns too because there is a lot of great worship in those songs. ;D

[Duke]

We use The Baptist Hymnal, withon it are a lot of so called praise songs. People seem to accept this more readily than using other non-traditional types of projected images to follow in worship.

Duke

[Uth_Guy]

While the Baptist Hymnal does possess a good number of praise songs, the problem I have found is how they are presented. With many praise songs as well as hymns, I feel it is important to understand why the author wrote it and the feelings they imparted to the music. I have heard some more of the lively praise songs played like some of our hymns which does not capture the heart of the music. "Pass It On", while a great campfire song, just doesn't fit with most services today.

[saltcitybaptist]

I have often done what a former pastor of mine used to do. Every now and then, while singing a song, the pastor would have us read one verse of the song. The purpose was to have us think about the words we were singing. Is it true that Christisians lie most often when we sing hyms in church.
PS I think "Pass it on" can be a wonderful song during a church service