In response to Best's essay, Horness states (speaking of Jesus), "When he taught, he communicated in stories and idioms that his culture would relate to. In centuries past, the church music some of us love so much today was written in an effort to do the same. The old hymns were written, just like many of the contemporary hymns being written today, as powerful, educational, and culturally relevant expressions of what God was doing in the lives of the people of that generation" (82).
By this statement, Horness makes a good point. The past hymn writers wrote about what God was doing in their day, and they did so in their own music style. Therefore, why can't today's musicians compose contemporary songs about what God is currently doing in their lives? I feel that this view is very plausible.
However, as Sally has said earlier, many recent composers are writing songs that are inadequate (52). Their "culturally relevant expressions of what God was doing" in their lives are many times 2% milk and not meat, and I believe they should be avoided in our church service.
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