I don’t get around much on Sunday mornings, you know.
So it’s always interesting to see what’s going on in the worship services of other churches.
St. Peter’s Free Church, Dundee, have posted their service details for the month of February here.
One point of interest is that the song choices for morning worship are songs and paraphrases, while the songs for the evening fellowship meetings include hymns and contemporary songs.
It’s not immediately obvious where the Psalms and paraphrases are sourced from. (Perhaps David Robertson or someone from St. Peter’s will stop by and leave a comment to this effect) I think there may be more than one source used.
Of the hymns and contemporary stuff, there’s lots that I recognise and a few that I don’t. Something new to look for.
Also interesting to see a number of preachers over the month, and that they are treating a variety of Old and New Testament texts. Again, I can’t immediately tell if this is a usual practice or something seasonal.
Looking at this sort of thing helps shake us out of provincialism.
(It also has the advantage of being able to say to some of our Presbyterians who like all things Scottish that “These songs are sung by people in Scotland”.)
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I note that they call their evening service “Evening Fellowship” – I expect in order to get around the Free Church rule against using non-inspired songs in public worship. This is in accordance with David Robertson’s well-known desire to have that rule changed for the sake of greater organic unity among orthodox presbyterians in Scotland (and he may be right about that).
At South Yarra Presbyterian here in Melbourne we sing Psalms and other hymns from our denominational hymnbook, “Rejoice” (dismal modernisations and all), but we make a point of singing at least one Psalm (i.e. hymn or song based on a psalm, usually very closely) in every service, and often more (the widely-sourced range of Psalms for singing in Rejoice is one of its greatest strengths, along with its doctrinal consistency). So while we are not exclusive psalmodists by any means, neither do we ever exlude the Psalms from public worship. I like that.
I agree.
I also use the phrase “evening fellowship” for that reason.