SING! 2018

The Importance of Congregational Singing

Last September, Getty Music launched a multi-year focus on congregational singing with their first conference - SING! 2017. Through an impressive line-up of plenary and breakout speakers they began to tackle what they define as their five urgent goals:

1. Teach everyone why and how we sing.
2. Build deep believers through what we sing.
3. Strengthen and encourage families to sing together.
4. Build churches by singing together and to each other.
5. Witness to our wider communities by our singing

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Psalms: Ancient and Modern

Their work continued on an even larger scale this year as the conference more than doubled in attendance and moved from Brentwood Baptist Church to Nashville's Music City Center. After making the case for the necessity of congregational singing in 2017, their logical focus for year 2 two was the Psalms.

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​This year our focus is on the Psalms. As we look to this songbook of the Bible as our singing blueprint it unleashes boundless creativity, it reaches to the breadth of human experience, it gives us a breath taking vision of the vastness of God and His song of salvation to us.

George Herbert once wrote the raw words, 'Wounded I sing, tormented I indite' as he worked out how to understand his human struggles. He concluded 'I live to shew his power, who once did bring / My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing.' (Joseph's Coat). The Psalms invite us to honest and deep reflection, to the relief of pouring out our souls to God through the medicinal and beautiful gift of singing to the Lord with His people,