06/10/2026
Food for thought!
What Will Your Church Still Be Singing in 50 Years?
Some songs serve believers for a season. Others remain with us through joy and suffering, youth and the final hours of life. What makes a song worth handing on?
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Rooted Deeply in Scripture
The songs we repeat become our shared vocabulary of faith. They teach us who God is, what Christ has done, and where our hope is found. When words fail, we reach for truths we have learned to sing.
2
Written for the Whole Church
The songs we sing belong to the whole congregation, not only to those who lead us. They should make room for the child learning the faith, the new believer finding a voice, and the older saint who has sung these truths for decades.
Sing! attendees singing together with open hymnals.
3
Truth for Every Season
Enduring hymns give us words for celebration, hospital rooms, gravesides, doubt, suffering, and the daily walk of following Christ. Choose songs your people can carry from Sunday into every season of life.
TAKE THIS TO YOUR TEAM
Four Questions for Your Church
✓ Do these songs give people truth they can carry?
✓ Can children, new believers, and older saints sing them together?
✓ Will they serve people in suffering as well as celebration?
✓ Are they worth placing in the hearts of the next generation?
(Taken from Keith and Kristen Getty website)