Poll: A Question to All Church-Going Christians

[Stilt-Man]

For the most part, I greatly enjoy hymns. Outdated or not, I find most of their lyrics to be profoundly insightful, stirring, and uplifting. This is something that seems lost with a lot of modern Christian lyricists. I can't sing a note, myself, to save a life, but that's not the purpose of singing hymns and praises, so it doesn't bother me a whole lot.

I have no qualms with people who don't sing during worship service. I don't always sing, myself, if I don't feel like it. It's a debatable point, but I feel like I'm dishonoring God if I praise halfheartedly; so I can't rightly hold it against someone else who doesn't. Even apart from that, it's a matter between the individual and God.

 

[drisky]

Sometimes, my dad was the leader of the music group so I would do it out of respect to him, but normally church is too boring to get in to the sprit of things.

 

[razer17]

We used to sing hymns in primary school. When I was young, like 6 or 7, I really enjoyed it. Then I eventually realised the actual implications, and all the biblical connotations, so I stopped singing.

If I was religious I probably wouldn't mind hymns, since I still sing a lot, even if I am bad.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I can't sing them much anymore because for some reason I always tend to lose my voice after a couple songs.

Take this from someone who was constantly in one choir or another for 8 years: if you're losing your voice like that, there's something wrong with your technique. Many people don't realize this, but classical technique is good because it's emerged over several centuries as the best way to sing without frying your voice. If you're still in school, see if you can get the chorus director to take a look at what you're doing, because anything that makes you lose your voice that quickly is unhealthy.

Keep in mind I had several chronic conditions at the time I was in choir a lot which might have influenced my losing my voice, not least of which at the time was IBS/Acid Reflux. Also, this information is several years old. Recently I tried singing (been out of choir for a few years) and it did kind of bug my voice after a song or two, but it's been REALLY dry in my area and I've had a tickle in my throat for a month or two, as well as a bout with Strep earlier.

So... It MIGHT have been the technique, but it could just as easily have been any combination of factors. Oh, and my old choir practices would go on really long-I probably wasn't getting enough to drink during breaks. I mean, this wasn't just "Amazing Grace" we were singing-my church is way into music and would put on these big concerts. Some of the songs would go just past my comfortable vocal range (Baritone here), and that played a part.

But you could very well be right.