{"id":2091,"date":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/friday-is-for-friends-38.html"},"modified":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","slug":"friday-is-for-friends-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/friday-is-for-friends-38.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday is for Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I picked up Darrly Tippens&#8217; book, <em>Pilgrim Heart<\/em>, I knew something was different: anyone who has a chapter on singing in a book about spiritual disciplines has my interest. Why? Because, no matter how much we <em>talk <\/em>about discipleship, <em>singing music<\/em> plays a role in the development of Christians far more than most realize. In my lifetime, the biggest change I&#8217;ve seen in Sunday morning services is the music &#8212; we&#8217;re still preaching sermons and taking offerings and greeting one another with The Peace &#8212; and we&#8217;re still singing &#8212; but we are singing in a way unlike ever before. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\n&#8220;Music,&#8221; he says, &#8220;may well be the most overlooked of all the spiritual disciplines&#8221; (154). What do you think of this?<br \/>\nTippens begins with the potent story of Anne Lamott: music drew her into a church and it was the music that washed over her and drew into personal faith. Augustine, too, was overwhelmed by music in the church at Milan. Kathleen Norris thought &#8220;singing was the purpose of religion&#8221; (147).<br \/>\nWorship in the Bible inevitably resorts to symbolic language, image and song. I like this statement by Tippens: &#8220;Without music we are left with talk&#8221; (148). Thus, he speaks of &#8220;music&#8217;s power to take us where the intellect cannot go&#8221; (148).  Further, &#8220;the force of hymns is often extraordinary because, when we sing, body, emotion, and intellect are mysteriouisly connected&#8221; (150).<br \/>\nPerhaps, he says, &#8220;the day is not far off when congregations will devote as much attention to worship music as they do to the preaching or youth programs&#8221; (153). I&#8217;m not so sure that day has not already arrived in some churches.<br \/>\nWe fight about music so his statement from George Ives is so apt: &#8220;You won&#8217;t get a wild, heroic ride to heaven on pretty little sounds&#8221;  (154).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I picked up Darrly Tippens&#8217; book, Pilgrim Heart, I knew something was different: anyone who has a chapter on singing in a book about spiritual disciplines has my interest. Why? 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