You live in a world where you have unparalleled choice at your fingertips when it comes to what your church sings.
CCLI (Christian Copyright Licencing International) boast a library of over 600,000 songs that you can access. By way of contrast, when Songs of Fellowship Book 1 was first published in 1979 (less than 50 years ago) it contained only 53 songs – and even at the height of its popularity only had 640 songs in it!
Today’s vast choice can be paralysing for those of us who choose what music to sing week by week in our local church gatherings. Do we teach this new song? Do we do an old favourite? How about the hymns? In the internet age, it has become normal for each church to develop its own repertoire of songs. Yes, there is some common ground between churches from a similar stable – but my experience is that new people to our church take about six months to get their teeth into our particular set of songs.
