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The Early Church: Singing Saints I
Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. Psalm 30:4 Much of the music of today’s church would have little meaning to those hardy saints of the early church. For them, music was the means for Spirit-led prayer and praise—not a pat...
The Early Church: Singing Saints II
Psalm 23 The Christian Church was born in song. So says one of the giants of 20th century theology, Dr. Ralph Martin. As the parallel passages in Ephesians 5:18-20 and Colossians 3:16-17 indicate, "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" were an integral part of the early church. As we look...
The Early Church: Singing Saints III
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spirituals songs… Colossians 3:16 In the New Testament, there are 283 quotations from the Old Testament; 116 of them are from the book of Psalms alone! Jesus quoted from ...
The Early Church: Early Instruction in Song
How did the early Christians sing? And what did they sing? And what difference does it make to 21st century Christians? We have been dealing with these questions over the past several months. In this essay, and in the next two essays, we look to three giants of the early church for continued guidanc...
1,000 Years of Silence
One of the great mysteries of the church is the absence of congregational song from about 500 AD to 1500 AD. As we have noted in the past, the early church was saturated with song. In fact, one scholar, Ralph P. Martin, goes so far as to state that the "Christian church was born in song." So then, ...
Singing: Lessons Learned from the Early Church!
We have spent the last year looking at lessons learned form the teaching and practice of the early church. As we said on April 26, 2006, "the musical philosophy of those hardy saints was not abstract: it was built on the practical reality of the writings of the Old Testament and the teaching of the ...