MormonTimes.com: Baptist and LDS hymns focus on Christ

Published: Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 1:00 a.m. MST
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A recent article on BaptistStandard.com explored how "Hymns sung in most Baptist churches historically have been 'More About Jesus' than about either God the Father or the Holy Spirit."

The article discussed how in singing there was a greater focus on Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

"One way to gauge that is by looking at the index in the back of the hymnal under 'Holy Spirit.' Looking at the 1991 Baptist Hymnal, for instance, theres not much there. And I was on the committee that put that one together, for crying out loud," said Terry York, associate professor of Christian ministry and church music at Baylor University's School of Music and Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas.

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