While reading Bible Baptist Church's statement on music philosophy, I came across this excellent reminder.
Above all, sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing Him more than yourself or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve of here, and reward you when He cometh in the clouds of heaven.
--John Wesley, Select Hymns (1791), taken from the Introduction
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