They Have Sung Their Creed
Story★★★R. W. Dale, in his Yale lectures on preaching, spent most of one session on the
power of music in the life of a congregation, saying, “The congregations that always
leave the singing to the choir, and never sing at all, or that sing very rarely, or that
sing languidly and without any vigor and heartiness, do not know what they miss.
In nearly all great revivals of religion the common people themselves have been
inspired with a passion for singing. They have sung their creed: it seemed the freest
and most natural way of declaring their triumphant belief in the great Christian
truths.”
The point
R. W. Dale observed that in every great revival, common people expressed their faith not through silence but through passionate congregational singing.
Scripture
Colossians 3:16Psalm 100:1-2Ephesians 5:19
Audience
Adults
Tone
Inspiring · Encouraging
To tell aloud
under a minute · 104 words