[Charles Henrickson]

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

We’ve been using the LSBs for many months now and love it. Thanks, Pastor.

[kittymyrib]

Thank you, Pastor, for your message for Trinity Sunday.

We have used the Lutheran Service Book for a year and are very happy with it. I hope your congregation will learn to love it, too.

[lightman]

The typical praise chorus consists of “Lord, we just wanna praise you,” repeated 17 times. “We have come to praise you today, Lord.” “We just wanna worship you.” One of my fellow pastors has described it as “Three Little Pigs” worship: “We, we, we,” all the way home.

I call them 7-11 songs: 7 words repeated 11 time.

On the Difference between Praise Choruses and Hymns

Ole, accustomed to a mainline church went to a seekers' service on Sunday. He came home and his wife, Lena asked him how it was.

"Well," he said, "it was interesting. They did something different. They sang praise choruses instead of hymns."

"Praise choruses?" said Lena. "What are those?"

"Oh, they're Okay, I guess. They're sort of like hymns, only different," said Ole.

"What's the difference?" asked Lena.

He replied, "Well, it's like this. If I were to say to you, 'Lena the cows are in the corn,' that would be a hymn.'

Suppose, on the other hand, I were to say to you: 'Lena, Lena, Lean, oh, Lena, Lena, Lena, the cows, the big cows, the brown cows, the black cows, the white cows, the black and white cows, the COWS, COWS, COWS are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn, are in the corn, the CORN, CORN CORN.' Then if I were to repeat the whole thing five or six times, that would be a praise chorus."