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If you're integrating contemporary worship music into your services, you've no doubt experienced the "worship wars" - traditionalists in your congregation who don't like praise choruses.

Some people will never be happy, but you may calm a few down by blending hymns with your praise songs. Of course, as worship leaders, our job isn't about pleasing people, but pleasing the Lord. However, integrating a re-arranged hymn into your praise set says we're building on the faith of our fathers, while still using the contemporary expression of the 21st century. Read what worship guru Sally Morgenthaler says about using hymns with contemporary worship.

Heidi Weesies, a HymnCharts subscriber from Westend Church in Grand Rapids, MI, recently wrote:

"Our church has two services: more traditional and more contemporary, and typically the "more traditionals" have contempt for the "loud, raucous, repetitive" choruses used in the other service.

"We're moving to one service for the summertime, and last weekend we had our first combined service. I used several HymnCharts.com arrangements, along with a mix of contemporary music with rave reviews. One in particular was "My Savior's Love" - turns out to be the old-timer's favorite, but the arrangement you've created makes a beautiful sound with updated chording that appealed to our high schoolers too! I appreciate your ministry so much!"

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