Church Music
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Music in the Early EMCC Part 5: Hymns for Worship
This blog brings us to a hymnbook, Hymns for Worship (1963), not produced in the early EMCC, but it is still separated from us by several changing fashions in congregational music. This is a book of which I have personal… Continue reading
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Music in the early EMCC Part 4: Music of Evangelical Association and Church and the EUB
The way congregations are increasingly isolated in the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada, the music we sing no longer generally unifies the Church, even inside a congregation. Unless worship leaders deliberately educate the churches, the default is the lowest common… Continue reading
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Music in the early EMCC Part 3: Song leaders and musical instruments
There is nothing new under the sun, according to The Preacher in the biblical book Ecclesiastes. Some EMCC congregations in recent generations created a staff position called the “minister of music,” though this was possible only in larger congregations. Now… Continue reading
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Music in the Early EMCC Part 2: Church song and hymnbooks
The music you listen to, or the songs you sing in church, say something about your relation to God and the body of Christ. It was no different with music in the early EMCC. The public music used reflects community… Continue reading
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Music in the Early EMCC Part 1: Eldon T Sherk Collection
Have you ever heard of the “worship wars”? It seems we can’t please everybody as musical styles of western churches fragment ever more. Everybody has their own preference. Most evangelical revivals in recent centuries have produced new music praising God,… Continue reading
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