Should we encourage teenagers to sing? It’s a question we all know the answer to, but most of us are in denial about how to do it.
I’m on the verge of being a father to a teenager, so this is something that has become more applicable on a personal level, especially for him, as singing with his parents in church feels more and more ‘not cool!’
Moses recited a song to God’s people in Deuteronomy 32, and then said to them, ‘Take to heart all the words with which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.’ (Deuteronomy 32:46). It’s clear from this verse that Moses would say a resounding ‘Yes!’ to the question posed at the beginning of this article, though he doesn’t go on to say when, how often, and what form that singing should take.
