Keith and Kristyn Getty, Sing!: How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church. B&H, 2017. 149 pages.
In Christ Alone by Keith and Kristyn Getty released in 2001. The first time I heard it, I remember being deeply encouraged by its theological depth. Incarnation, penal substitutionary atonement, propitiation, perseverance of the saints—so many glorious doctrines wrapped in just four verses. “People don’t write songs like this anymore!” I thought. Thankfully, I was wrong.
But the Getty’s book Sing! is not about their music. It’s a book about singing; specifically your singing. This particular focus on singing is exactly where Scripture itself leads us (Col. 3:16). So much ink spilled in the worship wars of the late 20th century missed the rather important point that when Scripture talks about the church’s musical worship, it focuses explicitly on the congregation singing, not instrumentation or musical style. In Sing!, the Gettys rightly call the church to focus once again on first priorities: the centrality of singing in the Christian life and life of the church.
BIBLICAL AND PRACTICAL MEDITATIONS ON SINGING
In the first three chapters, the Gettys lay the biblical foundations for singing as an essential part of the Christian life. They
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