This article challenges the common Evangelical habit of equating worship with music and calls the church to recover a fuller, biblical vision of worship centered on Christ’s saving action through Word and sacrament. While affirming music, emotion, and heartfelt singing as God-given gifts, it argues that worship is more than sound and atmosphere—it is the Triune God ser...

The Bible sets forth a high view of the role of music in the church’s worship and witness and believers should as well. Why then does the church gather to sing? What is the role of music in the worship and witness of the church? This paper seeks to explore and answer this question....