Yesterday I presented the Gospel of John at the Grand Central Church of Christ in Vienna, WV. If you don’t know much about the Church of Christ, most of them do all their singing acapella. I will also spend tomorrow and Wednesday speaking to students at Ohio Valley University – which is also a Church of Christ school.
I’ve been to both of these groups before, and always have a fabulous time. You may or may not know it, but I love to sing. I’ve been singing (my momma tells me) since before I could talk. So when I get around a few hundred people who have all been singing 4-part harmony since the cradle – I am brought to silence.
Most churches in America have about 10-20 people who can really sing good harmony. These groups only have about 10-20 who can’t! This doesn’t happen to me much, but yesterday I was in such awe of the beauty of their “joyful noise” that I spent most of the time just listening – and thanking God for a group that worships the same God my home church worships – just in a different way.
How have you experienced the beauty of variety in worship?
