Fashions and tastes change. But having lived in several metro areas and attended various Baptist churches in four southern states over the last forty years, what is observed in the video below was fairly typical until relatively recently. There were no screens, guitars or drums. Typically, a music minister or pastor led the congregational singing. People held hymnals in their hands and sang from them. The music was melodic and reverent and easily sung and scripturally based and sometimes evoked an emotional response; but was also devoid of the most hip variations we see today. For some of you, this might seem a bit foreign, but it could be very worshipful especially when Spirit-filled:
Blast From The Past
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Hallelujah.. Thank you God:
What a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
And I look upon his face
The one who saved me by his grace
When he takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land
What a day, glorious day that will be (in the second person)
There’ll be no sorrows there
No more burdens to bear
No more sickness and no more pain
No more parting over there
But forever I will be
With the one who died for me
What a day, glorious day that will be
What a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
When I look upon his face
The one who saved me by his grace (but when he)
When he takes me by the hand (takes me by the hand)
And leads me through the Promised Land
What a day, glorious day that will be
Oh, what a day that will be
When my Jesus I shall see
When I look upon his face
The one who saved me by his grace (but when
When he takes me by the hand (he takes me by the hand)
And leads me through the Promised Land
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Thanks, Fred. A newer hymn, but a very powerful one when an engaged, fully participating congregation is singing it.