That is exactly what Christ has done for us with respect to worship. Robbed of our dignity by sin, having had our God-given vocation clouded, we are restored by Christ to be a royal priesthood offering praise and thanksgiving to God and proclaiming the Gospel to the world. When we gather for worship, it is as if Christ has brought us back to our homeland and returned to us the ministry for which we were made.
Christian worship is a first-person plural enterprise.
In today s culture such song is a remarkable, novel thing. Today the individual is supreme. In a culture of self-gratification, perpetual entertainment, the notion of singing together to each other in any corporate way is a radical one indeed. The duty and delight of the leader of congregational song is to energize all gathered in this transforming activity. We must be hospitable leaders of the congregation s song.