Since moving to Tucson and starting to worship with Southside Presbyterian Church, I have been exposed to the wonderful genre of music called Gospel. Being a Wyoming girl, I have never had the opportunity to listen to or worship through gospel music. The choir at Southside is a gospel choir, and I have enjoyed the exposure to this type of worship.
This afternoon, I attended a gospel choir concert and the pianist took a short amount of time to share about her youth and growing up with gospel music. She emphasized the simplicity of the music and how a song can grow out of one line. She told a story of her father repeatedly singing a line about Jesus being our leader and how the whole room erupted into a heart-felt song of our leader Jesus.
That is the beauty of gospel music. It doesn't need elaborate instruments, chords, rhythms or lyrics. All it needs is expression from the heart and the simple beat of a stomping foot and clapping hands. From those simple elements, a beautiful form of worship is born - a worship from the heart, a worship that is true to our Lord, a worship contagious to a body of believers, a worship that frees the soul.
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