The reason I mention them is that they are masters of reviving old songs. If you listen to either of their Offerings worship albums, you'll hear plenty of older songs given some new Southern Rock life.

In my last post, I spoke about the dangers of new music. One of the parts of that topic that I failed to mention was appealing to a larger audience. At our church, we are blessed to have a great showing from many generations. We have a great youth group, a burgeoning seniors ministry and baby-boomers a-plenty. This wide variety of ages means that we have a wide range of musical tastes too.

One of our challenges is in making music that everyone can relate to. We've found that each group is willing to sacrifice a bit of their taste in favor of unity, and our mission has been to make it so that no one has to make too many sacrifices. One of the ways we do that is in taking older songs that are familiar to our folks with a bit of age on them, and making them sound like they're newly minted.

It can be a lot of fun reviving an old song, and it takes some of the pressure off to have to write something new. Pulling a hymn off the shelf solves the problem of having a tried-and-true song ready to go in a matter of hours, rather than days or weeks.

Give it a shot. You'll like it.