If you were attending a summer hymn sing, what would get your feet tapping, move your spirit, make you feel the Presence?

I post this because I heard a group sing "Sunny Side"the other day and smiled the whole way through. A friend came in to church the other day singing "O Happy Day" and then I heard a woman in the grocery store softly singing "Down By the Riverside"....

There is some trouble brewing in a congregation, I know. they have a Sanctuary Choir ( in place before the call to a new minister). They sing mostly Gospel music in their anthems.

The congregation have put this choir, music director and music on a pedestal. They carry lots of clout.

This new minister likes to have the music in the service correspond with the readings and the sermon and the minister is having trouble with the theology of some of the Gospel Music.

Power In The Blood thread has lead me to this place.