There are thousands of “Christian” artists, which make up a lot of songs and the local churches are those that try to reproduce many of those songs in their services, and this is not bad, but there are details that we must examine as a church before reproducing certain songs.
People mostly listen to a song because of how beautiful the piano sounds and the powerful sound of the drums, we find music so beautiful that we forget the essence of a Christian song. Therefore, we bring three points that we must verify before choosing a Christian song.
1- Is the song didactic?
All the psalms are didactic, they bring us a profound teaching on different subjects, on trials that the psalmist went through, moments of happiness, and we will see that each psalm throws us a great teaching. We can not sing something in the church that does not teach the listener, that does not edify, because everything that does not edify should not be part of the praises to the Lord in the temple.
I see many times how in churches they sing a hymn that does not show any kind of teaching and people sing it normally, regardless of the lyrics.
2- Is the song Biblical?
Many people wonder: Should the Christian singer know theology? To my opnion they must know theology, since the way in which we can know God is through the Scriptures, and the composers of Christian music should be concerned because their music is Biblical. There are many songs that take many parts of the Bible out of context, and we must take this very seriously.
We were created to glorify the eternal God. Let’s glorify it with our music.