The idea
Congregational singing is an embodied expression of the priesthood of all believers. All members have a voice.
The thread
The practice that voices it. A choir or an organ can carry the worship on your behalf; congregational singing structurally cannot. You cannot sing without hearing that every person in the room has a voice, and without knowing they are hearing yours.
Documents
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Millennial Harbinger
1830–1870
Launched in 1830, Alexander Campbell's *Millennial Harbinger* became the flagship periodical of the movement, carrying essays, debates, congregational news, and missionary reports that advocated primitive Christianity, believer's baptism, and a reasoned, reforming faith.
Read aloud
Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.