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ChristopherPaul · #18 (**permalink**) 04-22-2008, 08:28 AM

I vividly remember a moment back when I was still an active member in the Willow Creek Model Seeker Sensitive Church, and while I was just discovering the Doctrines of Grace. I was on a mission to find or make (I wasn't reformed yet) a church that was true to the scriptures and was just like the church in the apostolic times. I was in church ignoring the service as much as possible and thinking to myself, "If the Psalms were originally written to be sung why does the church not sing them today?" I had no idea what a "Psalter" was nor that churches still sang Psalms. I thought I had some new revolutionary idea (

). So then I started searching online and voilà! Another confirmation that the reformed churches were the true churches according to God's word.

Another quick account: When I finally left the seeker church and became a member at a PCA church, I was disappointed that the church did not use any Psalter nor did it sing Psalms (they didn't even use the Trinity Hymnal). I approached the session about being an inclusive Psalmody church and gave them the PCA position paper on the matter as a defense for the Psalter in worship. the head of the session responded that this was interesting he never heard of singing Psalms in church before (

). Needless to say the motion never made it to vote. An explanation was given, they patted my head and told me to run off little fellow.