Finally, Watts felt that not all the experiences of the Christian person, and especially contemporary Christians, were covered in the psalms, and so new words, based in Scripture but not limited to the words of Scripture, should be written to allow contemporary Christians to praise God out of their lived experiences. Watts read the psalms discerning that they were composed about very specific situations in the lives of specific people and the nation in biblical times. His theology of “imitation”
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