J edwards on music

Posted on October 12, 2008 by mandythompson

We sing in worship to engage and express our affections. There is no other reason to sing.
If we aren’t dealing with our affections in worship, we might as well just read the lines of the songs dryly together in paragraph form without any music.
We worship with music to because God has created music with a certain nature where it tends to move our affections deeply.

- Jonathan Edwards

Thanks, Amanda Kelly.

7 thoughts on “J edwards on music”

LSOF on October 12, 2008 at 7:23 am said:

I SO love this, and girl, WE KNOW this holds truth:)

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traciejane on October 12, 2008 at 7:31 am said:

Hey Mandy
I just watched the movie Walk the Line. And this post reminds me os this scene:

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ramsey72 on October 12, 2008 at 8:34 am said:

Great reminder!

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cathi stegall on October 12, 2008 at 12:32 pm said:

i particularly like that this says nothing about style or type of music…just “worship”…

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Becca on October 12, 2008 at 4:08 pm said:

That… is awesome. I wrote it down in my little notebook!

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Brandy on October 12, 2008 at 9:18 pm said:

I like it!

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alece on October 30, 2008 at 10:04 am said:

indeed.

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