Worship Music and Modernisation of Hymns
The official hymn book of the Lutheran Church of Australia is the Lutheran Hymnal with Supplement.
The Church is happy to use gender-inclusive language where this does not detract from the teachings of the Word of God and to this end, the Church is happy to modernise the language of its hymns where such modernisation is practical.
Read more about this topic: Lutheran Church Of Australia
Famous quotes containing the words worship, music and/or hymns:
“You don’t know what you might be if you would look beyond the ball, the opera, the fashion-plate—and right over the heads of the perfumed, mustached bipeds who call themselves men and worship at your feet.”
—Mattie Chappelle, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Revolution (April 28, 1870)
“There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The form of act or thought mattered nothing. The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of to-day, were all emanation of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)