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What Is Worship Music? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Too much of the debate surrounding different worship styles center on personal music preferences. Paul Jones, respected author on church musicianship and worship, takes one step further back and asks the question, “What is the music for?” Looking at biblical and historical sources, he builds a structure to help us all understand where we should be directing our energies and attention—and how to...

Can it be defined? Does the Bible tell us? Does it exist in one acceptable style, or two, or three? Is any music with Christian words acceptable? One would be hard-pressed to find definitive answers to these questions by observing practices in the church today. Currently, it seems, each assembly does what is right in its own eyes. Our relativistic, pluralistic society embraces everything, and the church follows closely on its heels. Often we are too inclusive, sometimes too
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