Two CREC and an RPCNA.
Thesis: Exclusive Psalmody seems not to exist.
What we sang were human riffs on the Psalms, changing the words around to fit rhythm and time and rhyme. Some verses repeated. Some not. Some looped. Some not. Not a single song matched the text in the preferred translation of the church. Most of them even proved difficult to match to the text if one had an open Bible next to the "Psalm"-book.
They wrote their own hymns inspired by the Psalms and then called them Psalms.
EHIP shall be the new name.
Exclusive Hymnody Inspired by Psalms.
Thesis: Exclusive Psalmody seems not to exist.
What we sang were human riffs on the Psalms, changing the words around to fit rhythm and time and rhyme. Some verses repeated. Some not. Some looped. Some not. Not a single song matched the text in the preferred translation of the church. Most of them even proved difficult to match to the text if one had an open Bible next to the "Psalm"-book.
They wrote their own hymns inspired by the Psalms and then called them Psalms.
EHIP shall be the new name.
Exclusive Hymnody Inspired by Psalms.