Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

It's heaven below.

And this hymn, Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, what's the page?

88.

It's a double snowman, 88 in our seedbed hymnal, Our Great Redeemer's Praise.

Amen.

Let's sing it.

Love divine, all loves excelling.

Joy of heaven to earth come down.

Awesome.

He's wondering, Todd, what are your thoughts about listening to hymns sung by nine Christian singers?

It really depends on a lot of things.

Let's consider two different realms and at least two types of people.

It's the, "For thine is the kingdom."

"For thine is the kingdom." And yes, the Protestants continue on with, "For thine is the kingdom." So you have that contrast, but the other thing that you notice as well is that when it comes to the hymns, only one side of the church is singing with gusto, and the other side of the church is looking across at these weird people.

What are they doing singing in church? So that's what we're gonna be talking about today, is singing in church-

Yeah

... uh, being a particularly, well, is it a Protestant thing or not? And, uh, a- and, and particularly, I suppose, our love of hymns.

Would you go along with that very kind of, uh, uh, you know, uh, made up on the back of an envelope thesis that, that, that Protestants love singing and, and Catholics don't so much?

Well, I certainly think, I think that's the perception, that church, that the, the, uh, the tradition of congregational participation in church music is much stronger.

We are on the same hymn sheet, David.

Hallelujah.

And our evening prayer hymn.

Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down, and impart to us here dwelling grace and mercy all around.

Jesus, source of all compassion, pure and bounded, love you share.