“Speaking to yourselves in...spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5:19). “Admonishing one another in...spiritual songs.” (Colossians 3:16). To remember that we are spiritual, and must sing spiritual songs excludes a good deal of worldly trash from our repertoire. These particular songs are those inspired by the Spirit and employed in the joyful and devotional expression of our spiritual life. There are some who declare that the Psalms are alone inspired, and to be used as songs, but Paul’s reference to “psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs” excludes a narrow compass.
Many of our modern hymns and choruses are not worth the paper they are printed on. They are purely doggerel, and nothing divine about them whatever.
Herbert Lockyer, All the Doctrines of the Bible, p.115
I’d hate to see what Lockyer would be saying now, almost 50 years later! So much of what passes for choruses are 24/7 jingles - 24 words said 7 times (or sometimes 7/24 - 7 words said 24 times!).
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