Why Should We Sing Psalms? Part 2 .

Why Should We Sing Psalms?  Part 2

       Ephesians 5:19 continues the mandate to sing the Psalms as well as other genres, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”  Colossians 3:16 continues this teaching, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms (psalmos 5568) and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

       Another reason that we are instructed in Scripture to sing the Psalms is that they give Christian musicians the wonderful opportunity to teach (didasko 1321) and to admonish (noutheteo 3560).  The Bible puts a premium on sacred musicing being a vehicle for teaching and learning by gentle admonition and warning.  I am not implicating that psalm singing is the only type of musicing that gives the aforementioned opportunities, but it is definitely one of the ways of teaching the doctrines taught in the Bible.

Thought for the Day

James 5:13 asks two questions, 1) Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. 2) Is any merry? let him sing psalms.  I guess those Christians who do not sing psalms must be sad all the time.

       Ephesians 5:19 continues the mandate to sing the Psalms as well as other genres, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.”  Colossians 3:16 continues this teaching, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms (psalmos 5568) and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

       Another reason that we are instructed in Scripture to sing the Psalms is that they give Christian musicians the wonderful opportunity to teach (didasko 1321) and to admonish (noutheteo 3560).  The Bible puts a premium on sacred musicing being a vehicle for teaching and learning by gentle admonition and warning.  I am not implicating that psalm singing is the only type of musicing that gives the aforementioned opportunities, but it is definitely one of the ways of teaching the doctrines taught in the Bible.

Thought for the Day

James 5:13 asks two questions, 1) Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. 2) Is any merry? let him sing psalms.  I guess those Christians who do not sing psalms must be sad all the time.