Congregational Worship
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. — Colossians 3:16
Why Do We Sing?
Everyone worships. Whether we have responded in faith to the call of the Gospel or not, we all worship something. Our worship is either directed to the only one worthy of our praise, our Triune God, or it worships something (or someone) who simply doesn’t deserve it.
At Boone Trail, we believe that all of worship must be in Spirit and in truth. We also believe that we cannot worship God in anyway we like, but that we must worship God as He tells us to worship Him. These are our primary motivations and concerns.
When you join with us you will find that we read the Bible, we pray the Bible, and we sing the Bible in songs from different ages, tempos and styles. So when you come, there will be some things that are comfortable and familiar and some things that may be surprisingly uncomfortable and foreign. We believe the Gospel is magnified and God is glorified when his people are bound together in Christ alone.
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What do we sing?
We sing a variety of songs from the Christian Tradition, some were written last week, while others are sung straight from the Old Testament. In addition to hymns common to Hymns of Grace and the Baptist Hymnal (‘91), we love to pull from modern hymn writers such as Keith and Kristyn Getty, Matt Papa, and Bob Kauflin.
These playlists give a little idea of some of the songs we sing together. You can also listen to this week’s hymns in advance, so you’re ready to sing together with us on the Lord’s Day!
Psalms for All Seasons
“Few Christians sing the Psalms anymore. Even if a songbook contains a few psalms, and even if they are used occasionally, most singers will not notice that they are distinctive or particularly important. If we use the Psalter at all, it is probably in a rather superficial devotional way. Our minds and hearts are not saturated with the Psalms as the hearts and minds of earlier generations.”