Show Notes
How do you decide which songs your church sings? Without a hymnal to pull from, every worship leader is a curator - and the stakes are higher than we often realize. In this episode, Matt Boswell, Ben Haley, and David Ames walk through the theology and practice of choosing songs for Sunday, from the biblical foundation for why we sing to four practical criteria for evaluating whether a song belongs in your church's repertoire.
Resources Mentioned: Psalm 96 Exodus 15; Revelation 15 John Newton’s Olney Hymns Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16
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