25 November 2023
Theology is doxology. Theology must sing… The song of the church must be
an unending song. The church must cherish the best, but its song should not be
a mere repetition of the song of the past. Then shall we sing with grace, with
all the emphasis on God and a most unsentimental subordination of ourselves. We
shall sing to the Lord. With our song we shall guide one another continually to
the center and fountain of the Christian’s life and thus really teach and
admonish one another. We shall sing in our hearts; the whole man will sing. We
shall see then realized the ideal of all Christian song: the whole man with all
his powers, with all the skills and gifts that God has bestowed upon him wholly
bent on giving utterance to the peace that rules within him, wholly given to
the purpose of letting the Word of Christ that dwells in him richly become
articulate and audible through him to the upbuilding of the church and the
glory of God. Then shall our theology be doxology.
Martin H. Franzmann
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