Another long, convoluted discourse on how people other than the author are wrong in the way they sing.
Makes you wonder what the author thinks of people from other nations and other cultures.
Is EVERY Chritian in the world supposed to sing 400 year old English hymnals? What about the persecuted Christians in China? Those in small mountain villages in Mexico? Serbian Christians?
My father, who wrote and edited Christian hymnal music for decades, had the same view of "church music" as this author.
A few years ago in his retirement, he went into the jungles of Africa, visiting Chistian churches there.
This African church had every kind of instrument there you can imagine. (No instruments other than the piano or organ were allowed in the church from my youth, where my father was minister of music.)
After a few of services full of CHRISTIAN music from their African culture, my father walked up on stage, grabbed what looked like a bass guitar and started playing with them.
Everyone hooted and hollered. (still makes me think of the movie "White Men Can't Jump"). My father sees things much differently today.
Anyway, I think God is pleased with whatever music we sing to him. (Country music and rap music excluded).