Closing Hymn

Deep Thoughts on a Monday Afternoon
By Pastor Erik

The most important element in planning worship is the closing hymn. It's what congregants sing, hum, or whistle as they leave the house of the Lord and re-enter the world in which they live. They take that closing hymn with them to the diner down the street, to the grocery store across town, to their child's soccer game, or to mother's Sunday dinner back home. The closing hymn, if chosen well, can be a sermon that keeps on preaching the whole day long. Pastors and worship planners would do well to thoughfully and seriously take up the task of choosing the closing melodies and lyrics of worship; the Sunday afternoon of the faithful depends on it.