Singing the Songs of Jesus: Revisiting the Psalms, by Michael Lefebvre
Philip Rainey reviews Michael Lefebvre's "Singing the Songs of Jesus," which argues that the Psalms were designed primarily as a hymnal for congregational worship rather than as a doctrinal text, and that their replacement by human-composed hymns in the 18th century represented a departure from the church's historical understanding. The review explores Lefebvre's thesis that the Psalms are prophetic words meant to be sung by the church as our words to God, offering a call to recover biblical worship practices in Psalm-singing congregations.
Singing the Songs of Jesus: Revisiting the Psalms, by Michael Lefebvre (Scotland, Christian Focus Publications Ltd. 2010), pp. 160. [Reviewed by Philip Rainey.] This is a small book, but with some very big and exciting ideas about the songs we sing in congregational worship. Michael Lefebvre is a convinced Psalm-singer and it is his purpose to demonstrate God's purpose in giving us the psalms and how He means us to use them in our public worship. The book is, therefore, both a call to recover...
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