Most people have a favorite type of music. We choose from country, rock, top 40, oldies, etc., to program our car radios. We usually tend to think that other people should share our taste for music. We even think that God must like the same type of music we do, and that is when the fireworks can start in church.

Eph.5:19-20 says, “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I don’t know the technical definition of these different types of music that are mentioned in this Scripture. But even the casual reader will have to admit that God likes a variety of music. Perhaps God doesn’t have a favorite style after all. Maybe he likes the kind of music I like, and at the same time, he likes music that I don’t prefer at all.

So I guess we ought to try to have a variety of music in church. One old preacher told his worship team, “There needs to be at least one song every Sunday that I don’t like.” We shouldn’t be selfish about what we want to sing and hear in church. For one thing, we have all of the rest of the week to sing and listen to whatever kind of Christian music we like. And more importantly, worship is not for you; it’s for God.

Give that some thought.