Singing praise to God has always been the practice of God’s people, especially together in the congregation. We want our worship to be joyful and wholehearted, but also reverent and honouring to God. We will sing truth about God, to Him and to one another, and we will rejoice in all that we know of God’s way of salvation and our experience of it.

We rejoice to sing songs and hymns in different musical styles, from different cultures and different centuries. We believe we can draw on the best of the old - in words and music - as well as the best of the new. We are prepared to sift and therefore sometimes to reject what is not helpful, both among the vast heritage of hymns from past centuries and among the huge number of contemporary songs. Some songs may not reflect what we believe or what is relevant for us, or the language may not be comprehensible to us, and some styles of music we may just find difficult to sing well.

To embrace different styles of music and song involves a measure of tolerance and broad-mindedness as we sing what is not ‘our’ style or ‘our' favourite song or hymn. But in doing so, if we can still sing or play wholeheartedly, we are declaring our oneness with other Christians through the ages and all over the world, and especially others who differ from us within our own congregation. The Bible encourages us in our corporate worship, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God." (Colossians 3:16)

We gladly make use of musical instruments to accompany our singing, always remembering that God wants most of all the praise of our own voices in words that we understand. We use most often the keyboard for melody and harmony, and guitars for rhythm, with other melody, accompaniment and percussion instruments from time to time.

We currently use mainly the Mission Praise books, as well as a large number of songs and hymns available on Overhead Projector acetates.

We are conscious that music, as with so many good gifts, can be misused or can become a distraction or diversion from our focus upon God himself. If the music or instruments distract us from what we sing then we would rather not have them. But if with the musical gifts God gives among us we can sing better and praise him more joyfully, we will gladly do so. We will seek always to play and sing with the aims of building one another up in our faith, helping visitors to understand and share in our worship, and bringing honour and glory to our Saviour Jesus.