The charts also can leave the impression that the only songs being sung in worship are hits from Hillsong, Bethel and other megachurches. (Photo by Nathan Mullet/Unsplash/Creative Commons) Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of “Nervous Breakthrough: Finding Freedom from Fear and Anxiety in a World That Feeds It” by Christy Boulware. They also miss when churches sing out of hymnals or other songbooks, rather than projecting songs on a screen. But they often miss out on some of the details of worship in local congregations - such as who is picking songs or who plays them. He said companies like Christian Copyright Licensing International - better known as CCLI - do a good job tracking the most popular songs used in churches. “Anything goes.”īishop has been working on a recent survey project to better understand the worship music used in local churches, especially smaller congregations, in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. “Smaller churches are like the Wild West,” said Will Bishop, associate professor of church music and worship at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Step into a big Baptist church on Sunday morning and chances are you’ll hear the same popular worship songs played at other big churches around the country.īut show up in a small church, and you never know what you’ll find - anything from “How Great Thou Art” to “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
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