by Haruo » Tue Aug 20, 2013 10:59 pm
I think there's another Baptist church in Asheville, NC, if I recall correctly, that did their own; I haven't seen it (nor the Greenville one). Or maybe it's the same one and I just invented the Asheville part...
A couple of our Evergreen churches use the DOC's 1995 Chalice Hymnal, now sadly out of print. Some others use the UCC's . Hope's is worth looking at, I think. Sample copy only $7.50. It's nondenominational, but I'm not clear on what makes a Baptist hymnal Baptist anyway, perhaps because we ABC folks haven't had our own hymnal for almost a century. (The last two denominational hymnals we had were joint ABC-DOC jobs: Christian Worship (1941), which was what I grew up on, and Hymnbook for Christian Worship (1970), which never gained much traction that I was aware of though perhaps more among the DOC than us undisciplinable Baptists.)
You also have to look at your congregation's preferences in matters of inclusive language and of modernization-vs-retention of archaic language, and possibly also other language issues (e.g. names for God). The New Century Hymnal, especially, is strongly antimonarchical and antidominical, with lots and lots of references to Jesus/God as "Lord" or "King" replaced with "God" or "Sovereign", that sort of thing.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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