In Colombia, we as young people have a church group who leads other young people of the country, its called JLMC (Juventud Luterana Misionera de Colombia), something like Colombian Missionarie Lutheran Youth.

  Many young people of this  group are composed for profesional musicians who teaches other church groups about music. So in certain way they define the type of music we hear in the church, taking into acount that is the young group of every church who leads the worship on the Sunday service, but always having the Pastor guidance.

I have seen there is a tendency when talking about music in my church, most of the elder  people like to hear  hymns and the younger like the newest chorus.

This “phenomenon” I could say is because  elder people think chorus have a lack of meaning giving more attention to music only. And for some young people himns are too much slow and some words are difficult to understand.

But certainly  Lutheran himns are beautiful, because they are fulled of meaning and good music, and am sure every true Lutheran love them because they make part of our identity, but there are many ways to make this beautiful music a little bit more, say  rhythmically talking”contagious”.

In the JLMC  20 years anniversary  I remember they sang a  very “conservative” hymn but they changed the music a little, many of them liked and some others not. I think this was  an example of creativity, we certainly can make some adjustments without losting the real meaning of the himns.

I have heard about the tendency to make music with tropical rhythms in other churhes. And I would say that at the end no matter how we develop worship on the Sundy service, but the intention of it, which must be to praise God. I would say that things are in balance refering to music in my church, so we have a space for modern chorus  and beautiful hymns during  the service.