I have wondered why I find modern church music rather uninspiring - maybe not the best word but it will do.
I have many modern Christian songs that certainly inspire, but one trip into a sanctuary with professional musicians shows the difference.
I used to run sound for Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Highland Park TX. The difference between their musicians with a pipe organ and full choir, and our strings and a drummer in our home church is night and day.
The average person memorized over 200 songs before recordings? Amazing.
My favorite hymns are those written between 1865 and 1917 by great American hymn writers like P. P. Bliss, Lelia Morris, George Stebbins, Robert Lowry and Howard Doane and English writers such as Joseph Barnby, William Monk and John Dykes. I hardly like anything that was written after 1939, and I can't stand the "modern" arrangements of most sacred songs available on Youtube.
My favorite performances of sacred music on Youtube are by the Old Fashioned Revival Hour Chorus Choir (I'm prejudiced because my mother was a member), Here, you can listen to them perform One of God's Days, a beautiful but nearly forgotten hymn written by Walter and Civilla Martin in 1909.