If worship is sustenance, then modern worship is fast food

C.H. Spurgeon, the great 19th century Baptist said once that whenever he came upon a mystery in the Bible, he considered that God had set a little altar there for him to kneel and worship. That’s good advice! And the great hymn writers love to dwell on the paradoxes of our faith that cause us to fall on our faces in worship -- “And can it be? That Thou my God, should die for me?!” In essence, the hymns are mini-meditations on the inexplicable glories of the gospel in all its fullness. My experience has been that when people taste the rich legacy of the hymns, set to music that flows out of who we are in our moment of history, it is hard for them to go back to merely singing praise choruses.