When you play, you pray twice!
This saying comes from a banner that hangs next to the band set-up at our church. It’s absolutely true. What you play and what you sing are your prayer as well as your witness. What you convey when you play church guitar says more about you than words could ever say.
Whether you are learning to play church guitar right now, or if you are adapting “secular” guitar playing to fit into sacred music, you are not very far away from performing the music you love. Many of the old Spirituals, such as “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”, as well as the hymns, such as “Amazing Grace” have very easy chord structures and the music is simple to play and/or sing. There is not a lot of adapting that needs to take place with these old and simple songs; if you have played Folk, Rhythm and Blues, or early Rock and Roll, you have played variations of these songs for years.
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This much-loved song was literally written on a ‘Silent Night.’ If a church pipe organ had not malfunctioned, our society probably would not have this beloved Christmas carol.
It may be that the silence of the broken pipe organ gave Reverend Joseph Mohr the inspiration to write the lyrics to “Silent Night” in 1818. In that moment, he likely was driven by anxiety rather than enthusiasm.
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There are members within every church that are ready and strongly desire the individual time to minister, participate and nurture other church members. Especially members that are not as active within the church family. These times that members interact with one another, are the times that that Our Lord desires amongst His believers and followers in Christianity. This type of sharing or in the simple instance of guitar classes in church, really show the love and adoration that is in the church.
Learning guitar lessons from church songs for your own musical talent addition is a positive measurable sign of personal dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ. Developing your own worship capabilities for display, perhaps to other church members during service. The holiday season will grow in important meaning to you and your family by learning church guitar lessons.
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