Music and its role, and effect, in the church is a vast a subject as music in itself. Music has both blessed and offended through church history, yet church life would be dry without it. Its role has to be to praise God first of all, then its power to touch emotions gives it a place in evangelism as we preach the word through song. William Booth, English evangelist and founder of Salvation Army, said: “Music is for the soul what wind is for the ship, blowing her onwards in the direction in which she is stee…