Sing a new Song
By David Montgomery
Rutherford House, Edinburgh . 142 pages
ISBN 0 946068 78 X
Last Christmas Eve I was handed a highly critical letter (all ministers get them) which carped about the songs I had chosen for our church's worship over the previous few weeks.
Maybe it was no coincidence that on the same day I began reading Montgomery's helpful book about the sung aspect of Christian worship. 'Leading praise' (his term) in today's church takes a deftness of touch which can only be added to by reading this book. Montgomery cogently argues that the sung aspect of Christian worship requires both the best of the classic hymns that have inspired believers for centuries, combined with the best of contemporary material that communicates its message in a radically different way.
