{"id":10181,"date":"2012-02-25T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:08:42","slug":"cs-lewis-on-singing-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/cs-lewis-on-singing-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Lewis on Singing in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10182\" title=\"Singing in Church\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Singing-in-Church-200x125.jpg\" alt=\"Singing in Church\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Singing-in-Church-200x125.jpg 200w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Singing-in-Church.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we want to know is whether untrained communal singing is in itself any more edifying than other popular pleasures. And of this I, for one, am still wholly unconvinced. I have often heard this noise; I have sometimes contributed to it. I do not yet seem to have found any evidence that the physical and emotional exhilaration which it produces is necessarily, or often, of any religious relevance. What I, like many other laymen, chiefly desire in church are fewer, better, and shorter hymns; especially fewer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014CS Lewis in <a title=\"Christian Reflections\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802808697\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jdmyers-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0802808697\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Christian Reflections<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tiheco-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802808697\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> p. 96.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding singing in church, CS Lewis said that what he desires are fewer, better, and shorter hymns; especially fewer. Many  would agree; especially men. Do you like singing in church? Do you think all churches must have congregational singing? 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