Lex orandi, lex credendi. This ancient Latin phrase means, “What you pray is what you believe.”
The songs we sing together in church are a special kind of prayer that profoundly influences how we see God. It is my hope that these posts will be a useful resource for people like me who are responsible for choosing songs and leading congregations in worship. I also hope that this blog will help you, whoever you are, to take a closer look at the songs you sing, and help to deepen your worship life.
Thoughts on Worship
“We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”
G. K. Chesterton
“A pastoral musician is not a musician who happens to serve in a church, but a vocational minister who happens to be a musician.”
Constance Cherry
“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”
Francis Chan
“The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That’s why theology and worship belong together.”
N. T. Wright
“I worry when the words of some of the modern worship songs seem to me just a random selection of Christian slogans, as it were, rather than actually a narrative of the world as claimed by Jesus and as rescued by Jesus in his death and resurrection.“
N. T. Wright
Will It Worship? 