I’m having a ball reading T. David Gordon’s Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns. Many of Gordon’s asides are interesting in themselves. Part of the book is an extended evaluation of the use of the guitar to lead congregational singing in corporate worship. Having written that: There is no good musical reason to insist on accompanying …

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From a footnote in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: I am unaware of any contest for “worst expression ever added to the church’s vocabulary”. If there were such a contest, however, my nomination would be this: reaching people for Christ. This ambiguous expression (which never appears in Scripture) is redolent with positive connotative content, whle …

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In the book ‘Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns’, T. David Gordon questions why being ‘contemporary’ has become the great aim of segments of the present day church, when that aim that has never been shared by any previous generation of the church. Is there a good reason why Johnny and this present generation must junk …

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