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CLASSICAL GUITARIST, CHURCH MUSICIAN, and AUTHOR Donn
LeVie, Jr. invites congregations, music leaders, and church musicians to
honestly assess how well their worship music uplifts the gospel. Here,
they will discover there is no room for personal preference where spiritual
discernment, established church music criteria, and scriptural guidance
must give wing to our voices in praise and adoration of an Almighty God.

With so many contemporary evangelical voices calling for "redefining",
"rethinking", "remaking", and "repackaging" Christian worship, now comes
a new voice for reclaiming its sacred and traditional precepts for
worshipping God through sung prayer. Praised by some of the world's
leading authorities on church music, It's All About HYMN: Essays on
Reclaiming Sacred and Traditional Music for Worship opens up new
doors to dialogue, sheds light on factors that influence the Western
Christian worship model, and challenges all Christians to reassess how
they approach the very act of worship.

In It's All About HYMN, readers will learn

-How to better apply biblical discernment for selecting music for worship
-How church architecture influences music selection for worship
-How the controversy over music choices for worship isn't new
-How worship music selections convey the strength of a congregation's Christian worldview
-How to differentiate among the fallacies, assumptions, and groupthink that characterize much of the worship music debate
-Why personal preference can't be an option for selecting worship music
-Whether secular music has a place in worship services
-Biblically based responses to 21 questions on the use of contemporary Christian pop music for worship
-How to use It's All About HYMN for group study/discussion
-Where to find select recordings of sacred choral music and pipe organ music (Appendix A and Appendix B)